# Latest **URL:** https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=1040 [Latest](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.ansible.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.ansible.com/tags.md) **Page:** 1041 --- ## [Bay Area meetup reminder](https://forum.ansible.com/t/bay-area-meetup-reminder/12972)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/bay-area-meetup-reminder/12972 "2013-06-17T16:54:04Z")
This Thursday, in Mountain View: https://www.eventbrite.com/event/7036623731 --- ## [Sets arithmetic, variable precedence](https://forum.ansible.com/t/sets-arithmetic-variable-precedence/12949)
**Author:** [@martin\_f\_krafft](https://forum.ansible.com/u/martin_f_krafft)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2013, 4:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/sets-arithmetic-variable-precedence/12949 "2013-06-17T04:01:03Z")
Hello list, how would you approach the following problem, which I have simplified for the purpose of this list? Let's assume you want Ansible to configure NTP clients on your hosts. Let's assume furthermore that you… --- ## [Compare files on client and server machine](https://forum.ansible.com/t/compare-files-on-client-and-server-machine/12971)
**Author:** [@celine](https://forum.ansible.com/u/celine)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2013, 3:47am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/compare-files-on-client-and-server-machine/12971 "2013-06-17T03:47:34Z")
Hi, I am new to ansible and hope that my post can be approved soon. I wish to ask if ansible is capable of comparing files between client and server machine. I did the action statement below but it compares between 2 … --- ## [run command in background](https://forum.ansible.com/t/run-command-in-background/12970)
**Author:** [@Balazs\_Pocze](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Balazs_Pocze)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2013, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/run-command-in-background/12970 "2013-06-16T21:15:06Z")
Hi Guys! I'm trying to solve this, but I have a few hours of frustrating trying, and I am out of ideas. Basic background: I just wanna to clone some mysql servers through the network, and here is a simple way to do … --- ## [Execute multiple commands in a single SSH session?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/execute-multiple-commands-in-a-single-ssh-session/12962)
**Author:** [@Will\_McLendon](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Will_McLendon)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [June 16, 2013, 2:43am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/execute-multiple-commands-in-a-single-ssh-session/12962 "2013-06-16T02:43:37Z")
Hello, I’m coming from the network admin side, and I am hoping to use Ansible to solve some issues we have (eg Customer calls and says “change the SNMP string on all 300 of our routers/switches. By the way, they’re not … --- ## [Playbook variables, documentation confusing](https://forum.ansible.com/t/playbook-variables-documentation-confusing/12965)
**Author:** [@martin\_f\_krafft](https://forum.ansible.com/u/martin_f_krafft)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/playbook-variables-documentation-confusing/12965 "2013-06-15T16:19:44Z")
Dear list, I am using the tip of Ansible development: % ansible-playbook --version ansible-playbook 1.3 (devel 0bd5fe9951) last updated 2013/06/15 16:06:49 (GMT +200) On http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/playbooks… --- ## [Undefined variables](https://forum.ansible.com/t/undefined-variables/12963)
**Author:** [@martin\_f\_krafft](https://forum.ansible.com/u/martin_f_krafft)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/undefined-variables/12963 "2013-06-15T16:18:05Z")
Hello, When Ansible encounters an undefined variable, it just uses the variable instance verbatim, e.g.: % ansible yellow.virt.local -m debug -a 'msg=x${foo}x' yellow.virt.local | success \>\> { "msg": "x${foo… --- ## [Variables not working in playbook](https://forum.ansible.com/t/variables-not-working-in-playbook/12966)
**Author:** [@martin\_f\_krafft](https://forum.ansible.com/u/martin_f_krafft)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/variables-not-working-in-playbook/12966 "2013-06-15T16:13:04Z")
Dear list, I am a bit stomped. I have the following test playbook: % cat test.yml - hosts: localhost gather\_facts: yes vars: msg: test tasks: - debug: msg=$msg - debug: msg=$ans… --- ## [sending vars to templates](https://forum.ansible.com/t/sending-vars-to-templates/12959)
**Author:** [@Arunoda\_Susiripala](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Arunoda_Susiripala)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/sending-vars-to-templates/12959 "2013-06-14T20:39:51Z")
Hi, I have a simple template and it uses some vars. now I need to send vars to it when invoking the actions I’m planning to use the single template in few places, so I need send vars in each template action call? Is i… --- ## [How can I determine child groups](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-can-i-determine-child-groups/12960)
**Author:** [@Jurgen\_Haas1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jurgen_Haas1)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-can-i-determine-child-groups/12960 "2013-06-14T15:41:37Z")
Is there a variable which tells me which groups are childs of what other groups? --- ## [gather facts from multiple groups?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/gather-facts-from-multiple-groups/12902)
**Author:** [@James8](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James8)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2013, 12:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/gather-facts-from-multiple-groups/12902 "2013-06-14T12:22:17Z")
Hi, Its been a while since I have posted, which is really a compliment to all the awesome modules. We have signifcan number of our projects covered by ansible. Has anyone seen an issue gathering facts and getting Au… --- ## [Dependancies and Plays?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dependancies-and-plays/12957)
**Author:** [@Dylan\_Martin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dylan_Martin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dependancies-and-plays/12957 "2013-06-14T00:17:42Z")
Hi everyone. Is there a good way to specify that a play needs whatever is done by another play? EG I have a playbook that installs apache. I have another playbook that installs a wiki and yet another that installs wordp… --- ## [Getting the local IP](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-the-local-ip/12956)
**Author:** [@Mathias\_Bogaert](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mathias_Bogaert)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/getting-the-local-ip/12956 "2013-06-13T20:37:03Z")
Hi, How do I insert my public facing IP (from the machine running Ansible aka client)? Usecase: insert my own IP in sshguard’s whitelist. Thanks! Mathias --- ## [issue with copy module](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-with-copy-module/12950)
**Author:** [@jean-marc\_pouchoulon](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jean-marc_pouchoulon)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2013, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/issue-with-copy-module/12950 "2013-06-13T18:46:51Z")
hi, I’v got a weird problem with copy module. sudo ansible-playbook ./test.yml -e host=vmldmz PLAY \[vmldmz-haproxy4\] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* GATHERING FACTS \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*… --- ## [Feature idea: remember notifications when errors occured](https://forum.ansible.com/t/feature-idea-remember-notifications-when-errors-occured/12955)
**Author:** [@Jurgen\_Haas1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jurgen_Haas1)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2013, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/feature-idea-remember-notifications-when-errors-occured/12955 "2013-06-13T18:38:49Z")
When playbooks are failing, Ansible is kind enough to write a temporary script which contains the list of hosts that haven’t been completed because of some failures in one of the playbooks. However, what I’m somehow mis… --- ## [New 1.2 feature -- group\_vars and host\_vars can now be stored with playbooks](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-1-2-feature-group-vars-and-host-vars-can-now-be-stored-with-playbooks/12892)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-1-2-feature-group-vars-and-host-vars-can-now-be-stored-with-playbooks/12892 "2013-06-13T15:22:56Z")
Small feature added for 1.2 I’ve made it possible to now be able to store group\_vars/ and host\_vars/ directories of variable data alongside playbooks, in addition to requiring them to be in inventory paths. In fact, bo… --- ## [multiple security groups for ec2 instance](https://forum.ansible.com/t/multiple-security-groups-for-ec2-instance/12953)
**Author:** [@Daniil\_Sobol](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Daniil_Sobol)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2013, 6:09am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/multiple-security-groups-for-ec2-instance/12953 "2013-06-13T06:09:08Z")
Seems that my previous post was lost somewhere. So I want to ask again: is there some way to map ec2 instance to multiple security groups? If not, please approve my pull request: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/… --- ## [Thinking about new modules: test module](https://forum.ansible.com/t/thinking-about-new-modules-test-module/12948)
**Author:** [@shirou](https://forum.ansible.com/u/shirou)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [June 13, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/thinking-about-new-modules-test-module/12948 "2013-06-13T03:01:37Z")
Hi all, I have a new module idea but no implementation at all. This email is just a problem presentation. Recently, DevOps people in Japan begin to use serverspec\[1\] to test target host environment. The serverspec i… --- ## [roles and non-relative dirs](https://forum.ansible.com/t/roles-and-non-relative-dirs/12951)
**Author:** [@Seth\_Vidal](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Seth_Vidal)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/roles-and-non-relative-dirs/12951 "2013-06-12T20:35:08Z")
Our structure is such that I want to refer to roles in non-relative dirs. A canonical absolute path: for files, tasks, etc I defined a global vars file that I load that has $files and $tasks etc, defined. I wanted to… --- ## [HP-UX facts](https://forum.ansible.com/t/hp-ux-facts/12908)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/hp-ux-facts/12908 "2013-06-12T20:33:42Z")
Thanks very much, will take a look at this shortly! --- ## [Ansible 1.2 released!](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-2-released/12937)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-2-released/12937 "2013-06-12T20:31:50Z")
Hi everyone! I’m super happy to announce that Ansible 1.2 (“Right Now”) is now released! Right now! You can read details here: http://blog.ansibleworks.com The new content will be up on PyPi very shortly also, and is … --- ## [Ansible on CentOS/RHEL 5](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-on-centos-rhel-5/12924)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2013, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-on-centos-rhel-5/12924 "2013-06-12T14:00:49Z")
Got it. So it seemed from your initial question you were trying to get it to work with yum, where yum is installed on the “box” python. Apologies as I was confused. (It is definitely true that you only need 2.4 or high… --- ## [Ansible surviving restarting of networking service](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-surviving-restarting-of-networking-service/12946)
**Author:** [@Mathias\_Bogaert](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mathias_Bogaert)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2013, 10:47am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-surviving-restarting-of-networking-service/12946 "2013-06-12T10:47:36Z")
Hi, I’ve completed a template for interface bonding on some of my metal (Ubuntu Server 13.04), see here: https://gist.github.com/analytically/5760207 The next step is to restart networking to let the bond take over. B… --- ## [Problem with: yum module, with\_items, composite-variable](https://forum.ansible.com/t/problem-with-yum-module-with-items-composite-variable/12439)
**Author:** [@Asad\_Khan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Asad_Khan)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2013, 10:44am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/problem-with-yum-module-with-items-composite-variable/12439 "2013-06-12T10:44:31Z")
Variable resolution seems to fail on the second iteration of a with\_items used with yum, but only if the variable is “composite” i.e. an expression involving other variables. Here is the playbook: vars: pkg\_list: jd… --- ## [when\_string and when and errors going from ansible 1.1 to 1.2](https://forum.ansible.com/t/when-string-and-when-and-errors-going-from-ansible-1-1-to-1-2/12945)
**Author:** [@Seth\_Vidal](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Seth_Vidal)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2013, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/when-string-and-when-and-errors-going-from-ansible-1-1-to-1-2/12945 "2013-06-11T18:16:21Z")
Hi, I had some conditional tasks like this: when\_string: ${inventory\_hostname} not in ${result.list\_vms} They worked in 1.1 In 1.2 they aborted with: fatal: \[127.0.0.1\] =\> Conditional expression must evaluate to Tru… --- ## [trouble with custom facts](https://forum.ansible.com/t/trouble-with-custom-facts/12939)
**Author:** [@David\_Birdsong](https://forum.ansible.com/u/David_Birdsong)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/trouble-with-custom-facts/12939 "2013-06-11T17:57:54Z")
I’ve written a simple module that spits back ansible facts, but I can’t get the following task to show any of the values on debug. Here’s the output from test-module: --- ## [Command module and idempotancy.](https://forum.ansible.com/t/command-module-and-idempotancy/12943)
**Author:** [@Steve\_Irvine](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Steve_Irvine)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/command-module-and-idempotancy/12943 "2013-06-11T17:46:36Z")
Hi all, I’m writing a playbook to install check\_mk. There are packages in the Ubuntu repos but they are old. The developers provide up to date debs, so currently I use the copy module to drop the deb on the target then… --- ## [How can I force the process of fact gathering?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-can-i-force-the-process-of-fact-gathering/12936)
**Author:** [@pancho\_horrillo](https://forum.ansible.com/u/pancho_horrillo)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-can-i-force-the-process-of-fact-gathering/12936 "2013-06-11T16:36:23Z")
Hi! Scenario: An ansible play modifies the facts of a box (i.e., by configuring the secondary interface of an AWS instance), rendering the previously gathered facts for that box inaccurate (the IP address of the sec… --- ## [S3 module - attempting to create folders via dest parameter ?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/s3-module-attempting-to-create-folders-via-dest-parameter/12903)
**Author:** [@Brice\_Burgess](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brice_Burgess)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2013, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/s3-module-attempting-to-create-folders-via-dest-parameter/12903 "2013-06-11T14:55:41Z")
Is it possible to use the S3 module to create folders within a bucket? I am using ansible 1.1 and am getting; msg: unsupported parameter for module: dest The docs lead me to believe that the dest param is available to… --- ## [Unable to execute ansible-playbook (when using shebang header with multiple options)](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-execute-ansible-playbook-when-using-shebang-header-with-multiple-options/12944)
**Author:** [@rabbit](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rabbit)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2013, 1:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-execute-ansible-playbook-when-using-shebang-header-with-multiple-options/12944 "2013-06-11T13:22:52Z")
Hi guys, When I executing ansible-playbook command manually it works like a charm: $ ansible-playbook --inventory-file=…/hosts --private-key=/root/.ssh/ansible.private.key test.yml PLAY \[fakegroup\] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*… [Previous page](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=1039) [Next page](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=1041)