Commit c4d5e919 by Lorin Hochstein

Docfix: checking a background task

Minor changes to wording on how to check a background task with async_status.

Fixes #9740
parent c725aa5e
......@@ -225,16 +225,16 @@ Ensure a service is stopped::
Time Limited Background Operations
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Long running operations can be backgrounded, and their status can be
checked on later. The same job ID is given to the same task on all
hosts, so you won't lose track. If you kick hosts and don't want
to poll, it looks like this::
Long running operations can be backgrounded, and their status can be checked on
later. If you kick hosts and don't want to poll, it looks like this::
$ ansible all -B 3600 -P 0 -a "/usr/bin/long_running_operation --do-stuff"
If you do decide you want to check on the job status later, you can::
If you do decide you want to check on the job status later, you can use the
async_status module, passing it the job id that was returned when you ran
the original job in the background::
$ ansible all -m async_status -a "jid=123456789"
$ ansible web1.example.com -m async_status -a "jid=488359678239.2844"
Polling is built-in and looks like this::
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