Knowledge Base

If you are trying to disable and stop a system service, and it fails out when the service is not defined, you probably just want to continue.

- name: disable service
  service:
    name: chronyd
    enabled: no
    state: stopped
  register: disable_service
  failed_when: "disable_service is failed and ('Could not find the requested service' not in disable_service.msg)"

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