svc – Manage daemontools services

Synopsis

• Controls daemontools services on remote hosts using the svc utility.

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
downed boolean	Choices: no ← yes	Should a 'down' file exist or not, if it exists it disables auto startup. Defaults to no. Downed does not imply stopped.
enabled boolean	Choices: no yes	Whether the service is enabled or not, if disabled it also implies stopped. Take note that a service can be enabled and downed (no auto restart).
name string / required		Name of the service to manage.
service_dir string	Default: "/service"	Directory svscan watches for services
service_src string	Default: "/etc/service"	Directory where services are defined, the source of symlinks to service_dir.
state string	Choices: killed once reloaded restarted started stopped	Started/stopped are idempotent actions that will not run commands unless necessary. restarted will always bounce the svc (svc -t) and killed will always bounce the svc (svc -k). reloaded will send a sigusr1 (svc -1). once will run a normally downed svc once (svc -o), not really an idempotent operation.

Examples

- name: Start svc dnscache, if not running
  svc:
    name: dnscache
    state: started

- name: Stop svc dnscache, if running
  svc:
    name: dnscache
    state: stopped

- name: Kill svc dnscache, in all cases
  svc:
    name: dnscache
    state: killed

- name: Restart svc dnscache, in all cases
  svc:
    name: dnscache
    state: restarted

- name: Reload svc dnscache, in all cases
  svc:
    name: dnscache
    state: reloaded

- name: Using alternative svc directory location
  svc:
    name: dnscache
    state: reloaded
    service_dir: /var/service

Status

• This module is guaranteed to have no backward incompatible interface changes going forward. [stableinterface]

• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Brian Coca (@bcoca)

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