Daemonizing an executable in ansible

Question

I am trying to create a task in ansible which executes a shell command to run an executable in daemon mode using &. Something like following

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Answer 1

I found the best way, particularly because I wanted output to be logged, was to use the "daemonize" package. If you are on CentOS/Redhat, like below. There is probably also an apt-package for it.

- name: yum install daemonize
  yum:
    name: daemonize
    state: latest

- name: run in background, log errors and standout to file
  shell:  daemonize -e /var/log/myprocess.log -o /var/log/myprocess.log  /opt/myscripts/myprocess.sh