Thanks, I didn't know about async, but it's NOT what I want since I do want 
the script to run as a daemon indeed.

On Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at 3:54:23 PM UTC-5, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>
> Or option three: use async:. 
> http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_async.html
>
>
> If the script is something you want to run and exit after performing its 
> tall, I think async is the most idiomatic.  If the script is more like a 
> daemon, having nohup in the script feels right to me but I can't think of a 
> reason either would be better.
> -Toshio
>
> On Jan 3, 2018 11:56 AM, "ZillaYT" <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Say I want to run a script in the background after my Ansible run 
>> finishes. Which of these two options is the correct way?
>>
>> *Option 1: Run a nohup on the Ansible task itself*
>> - name:Run a script in the background
>>   command: nohup myscript.sh 2>&1  &
>>
>> where myscript.sh does something (anything) but has no nohup calls.
>>
>>
>> *Option 2: Put the nohup in the script itself?*
>> - name: Run a script in the background
>>   command: ./myscript.sh
>>
>> and myscript.sh has in it the nohup
>>
>> *myscript.sh*
>> nodup do_something 2>&1 &
>>
>>
>>
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