use handlers https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.6/user_guide/playbooks_intro.html#handlers-running-operations-on-change
On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 4:12 PM Chris <ch...@isitgood.org> wrote: > Apologies if that was not clear. > > On my ansible server I have files that I want to copy to remote servers. I > only want to restart a service if a specific file was copied and not just > any other file. My example shows two files, but I only want to restart the > syslog service if the syslog file is copied. Additionally I don't want to > restart the syslog service on all of the inventoried servers just the ones > with the updated file. > > I hope that makes my question more clear. > > Chris > > On Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at 12:48:54 PM UTC-7, Kai Stian Olstad > wrote: >> >> On 05.09.2018 20:23, Chris wrote: >> > Good day, >> > >> > I have a list that I loop over to copy files. I want to restart a >> > service >> > only if that file has been changed on the remote system. What is the >> > best >> > method to restart a service on only on a system if the file was copied >> > to >> > the system. >> >> Here you say system and system. >> >> > If the system copies a new syslog file restart syslog. >> > >> > I know there are handlers and notify, but I only want to restart on a >> > specific system if it gets updated. >> >> And system again, so i guess this is system is the same host and notify >> is perfect in that scenario. >> >> -- >> Kai Stian Olstad >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/6d8870fb-3154-4965-93ff-b8300902a401%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/6d8870fb-3154-4965-93ff-b8300902a401%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Jonathan lozada de la matta AUTOMATION PRACTICE -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAFYJA%2BKBODXu-YMUq-7knT%2BjSBM-%3DrrUR60BNq5%3Dzs8bVf5VhA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
