skipped tasks are executed! In Ansible.

Just want to let you know.

This example is bizarre:

- name: Try /usr
  command: /usr/bin/foo
  when: foo_usr
  register: foo_output
- name: Try /usr/local
  command: /usr/local/bin/foo
  when: foo_usr_bin…

Restarting slow daemons

There is a patter for many services and applications: They become alive (start to process incoming connections) some time after they started. If you connect to them at that moment you may be able to connect, but many operations would fail.