Ansible Role: Daemonize

Installs Daemonize, a tool for running commands as a Unix daemon.

Requirements

Make sure you have gcc or other build tools installed (e.g. yum install make automake gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel on RedHat, or apt-get install build-essential on Debian) prior to running this role, as it builds Daemonize from source.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

workspace: /root

The location where code will be downloaded and compiled.

daemonize_version: 1.7.5

The daemonize release version to install.

daemonize_install_path: "/usr"

The path where the compiled daemonize binary will be installed.

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: servers
  roles:
    - { role: geerlingguy.daemonize }

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2014 by Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps.