# Latest **URL:** https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=938 [Latest](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.ansible.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.ansible.com/tags.md) **Page:** 939 --- ## [Custom facts that require sudo](https://forum.ansible.com/t/custom-facts-that-require-sudo/16174)
**Author:** [@profhase85](https://forum.ansible.com/u/profhase85)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/custom-facts-that-require-sudo/16174 "2014-09-11T14:16:25Z")
I ’ ve written some custom facts that require sudo to be executed (Those are scripts that parse some files in /etc/) . My custom facts scripts are of course not executed when ansible is gathering facts. On the other han… --- ## [MySQL modules config parsing is broken](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mysql-modules-config-parsing-is-broken/15903)
**Author:** [@muffi\_muff](https://forum.ansible.com/u/muffi_muff)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2014, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mysql-modules-config-parsing-is-broken/15903 "2014-09-11T13:25:29Z")
Hello, as already described in PR #6295 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/6295) I think the config file parsing in the MySQL modules is broken. These are the problems I see with the current code: parsing the co… --- ## [Helping test PRs](https://forum.ansible.com/t/helping-test-prs/16181)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2014, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/helping-test-prs/16181 "2014-09-11T13:16:09Z")
Hi folks, for those that wish to help some things move along faster, we’ve compiled this handy guide about some easy ways to help with testing incoming changes: http://docs.ansible.com/developing\_test\_pr.html This is t… --- ## [minimal sudoers configuration](https://forum.ansible.com/t/minimal-sudoers-configuration/16179)
**Author:** [@Jeff\_Weber](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jeff_Weber)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2014, 12:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/minimal-sudoers-configuration/16179 "2014-09-11T12:02:01Z")
I’m working on finalizing an implementation of an ansible poc for a new project, and as part of this poc our security team has asked for a minimal sudoers configuration for the ansible automation user. I’m currently u… --- ## [Register module output as host variables](https://forum.ansible.com/t/register-module-output-as-host-variables/16159)
**Author:** [@Abubakr-Sadik\_Nii\_Na](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Abubakr-Sadik_Nii_Na)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2014, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/register-module-output-as-host-variables/16159 "2014-09-11T11:33:07Z")
Hello gentle people, I think being able to register the output of commands/modules as host variables will be very useful. I got this idea writing a playbook to do; create a root user key pair for a couple hosts autho… --- ## [variables and delegate\_to](https://forum.ansible.com/t/variables-and-delegate-to/16172)
**Author:** [@Nico\_K](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Nico_K)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2014, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/variables-and-delegate-to/16172 "2014-09-10T20:20:43Z")
Hi, Quick question, I’m defining a group variable to be ‘delegate\_group: test’ or “delegate\_group: live’ depending on the --limit clause used. The variable is being properly defined (as can be seen with debug: msg=”"),… --- ## [Very strange ordering of results:](https://forum.ansible.com/t/very-strange-ordering-of-results/16175)
**Author:** [@John\_Oliver](https://forum.ansible.com/u/John_Oliver)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/very-strange-ordering-of-results/16175 "2014-09-10T19:46:27Z")
ansible 1.6.10 This stanza: name: Forward LDAP ports lineinfile: dest=/etc/sysconfig/iptables insertbefore=BOF line=“{{item}}” with\_items: “COMMIT” “-A OUTPUT -d 127.0.0.1/32 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 389 -j REDIRECT … --- ## [Placement of vars\_promt](https://forum.ansible.com/t/placement-of-vars-promt/16161)
**Author:** [@Tiglath](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tiglath)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/placement-of-vars-promt/16161 "2014-09-10T16:14:31Z")
My test playbook for the flow I want is shown below: I want some work done, then prompt the user, then more work, a pause, and the end. The thing is that the prompt comes up even before gathering facts, not as suggeste… --- ## [Retaining information about hosts after add\_hosts](https://forum.ansible.com/t/retaining-information-about-hosts-after-add-hosts/16164)
**Author:** [@Kurt\_Yoder](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kurt_Yoder)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2014, 1:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/retaining-information-about-hosts-after-add-hosts/16164 "2014-09-10T13:08:54Z")
Hi list, I posted a while back about a way to parallelize Openstack node creation. To recap, I have a role with the following task: \` name: Set up API connections for all Openstack nodes add\_host: name: “os\_api\_{{ … --- ## [Ansible 1.7.1 RPM?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-7-1-rpm/16170)
**Author:** [@Jacob\_Weber1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jacob_Weber1)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 10, 2014, 2:52am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-1-7-1-rpm/16170 "2014-09-10T02:52:20Z")
Is there a place to download an ansible 1.7.1 RPM? I can only find version 1.7 on epel and epel-testing, and that has a bad bug with commands that have a lot of output. I can no longer find 1.6.x in epel either, so I’m k… --- ## [Info: ec2\_lb with access\_key/secret\_key specified but could not perform elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers](https://forum.ansible.com/t/info-ec2-lb-with-access-key-secret-key-specified-but-could-not-perform-elasticloadbalancing-describeloadbalancers/16166)
**Author:** [@Steven\_Truong](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Steven_Truong)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/info-ec2-lb-with-access-key-secret-key-specified-but-could-not-perform-elasticloadbalancing-describeloadbalancers/16166 "2014-09-09T21:35:58Z")
Hi all, I have a play book that just simply go and add instances to my ELB but apparently the user’s keys specified were not authorized to do the “DescribeLoadBalancers”. This user has a policy attached to it that allow… --- ## [Guidance on deploying with Ansible](https://forum.ansible.com/t/guidance-on-deploying-with-ansible/16165)
**Author:** [@Jeremy\_Gailor](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jeremy_Gailor)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2014, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/guidance-on-deploying-with-ansible/16165 "2014-09-09T20:43:45Z")
I think I have an idea about how to do this, but I wanted some guidance from the Ansible community: What I would like to do is the following: Run ansible-playbook Ensure that there are X nodes in EC2 matching some cri… --- ## [error on change notify](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-on-change-notify/16162)
**Author:** [@Mark\_Olliver](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mark_Olliver)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-on-change-notify/16162 "2014-09-09T19:30:33Z")
Hi, I am getting the following error one the second run of my play book but i am not sure why or what I should be doing to correct it. fatal: \[idb-13\] =\> error while evaluating conditional: {u’changed’: False, u’group’… --- ## [ec2\_facts hung](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ec2-facts-hung/16154)
**Author:** [@Steven\_Truong](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Steven_Truong)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ec2-facts-hung/16154 "2014-09-09T19:14:37Z")
Hi all, The subject is misleading but I would like to get some helps on how to troubleshoot this or figure out what can be done. I have about 70 instances with tag kafkaproducer=yes and I want to do rolling updates to … --- ## [\--check shows changes that won't actually happen](https://forum.ansible.com/t/check-shows-changes-that-wont-actually-happen/16153)
**Author:** [@Romain\_Richard](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Romain_Richard)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/check-shows-changes-that-wont-actually-happen/16153 "2014-09-09T19:10:57Z")
Hi, We have a playbook to manage SSH keys on our servers (we are not using the authorized\_key module because it appends users’ keys without ever deleting the old ones). For that we created a template to gather all the … --- ## [New Windows PRs](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-windows-prs/16163)
**Author:** [@Chris\_Church1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Chris_Church1)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2014, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-windows-prs/16163 "2014-09-09T18:45:50Z")
I’ve added 2 new pull requests for Windows modules, and would appreciate some feedback/testing from those of you using Ansible with winrm before merging them: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/8945 (Updates to win… --- ## [Adding lines with variables](https://forum.ansible.com/t/adding-lines-with-variables/16160)
**Author:** [@John\_Oliver](https://forum.ansible.com/u/John_Oliver)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2014, 5:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/adding-lines-with-variables/16160 "2014-09-09T17:23:50Z")
ansible 1.6.10 name: Get vmail home directory shell: “/bin/grep vmail /etc/passwd | cut -d’:’ -f6” register: vmail\_dir name: Modify postfix config lineinfile: dest=/etc/postfix/main.cf line=“{{item}}” insertafte… --- ## [How do you store login info only once?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-do-you-store-login-info-only-once/16156)
**Author:** [@Hagai\_Kariti](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Hagai_Kariti)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2014, 4:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-do-you-store-login-info-only-once/16156 "2014-09-09T16:52:39Z")
Hi all I have a pattern question. Let’s say I use ansible to both provision a server (RabbitMQ in my case) and to deploy an application that will connect to that server. Of course I save the login info in a vaulted grou… --- ## [How to get variables from python to Ansible?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-get-variables-from-python-to-ansible/16150)
**Author:** [@Tiglath](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tiglath)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-get-variables-from-python-to-ansible/16150 "2014-09-09T16:44:18Z")
I know that register: var Allows to reference var.stdout, but… Say I call a python script that prints to stdout more than one argument as in a tuple : (arg1, arg2, arg3) How can I get that into individual variables i… --- ## [Support for SHA256/SHA512 checksumming](https://forum.ansible.com/t/support-for-sha256-sha512-checksumming/16158)
**Author:** [@Brantley\_West](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brantley_West)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/support-for-sha256-sha512-checksumming/16158 "2014-09-09T15:44:50Z")
I’m running into an issue using Ansible and MD5 checksumming on a FIPS compliant CentOS KVM system (ValueError: error:060800A3:digital envelope routines:EVP\_DigestInit\_ex:disabled for fips). Unfortunately FIPS-compliant … --- ## [Merge the roles of two plays into one](https://forum.ansible.com/t/merge-the-roles-of-two-plays-into-one/16119)
**Author:** [@Wolfgang\_Ziegler](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wolfgang_Ziegler)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2014, 2:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/merge-the-roles-of-two-plays-into-one/16119 "2014-09-09T14:35:03Z")
I’ve a setup of multiple projects, where each project specified the roles it works with via a playbook like the following: \` Ansible playbook. Has to be included in a top level playbook and the hosts variable set. --- ## [Minimum IAM permissions required for S3 module](https://forum.ansible.com/t/minimum-iam-permissions-required-for-s3-module/16157)
**Author:** [@Jake\_Clarkson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jake_Clarkson)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/minimum-iam-permissions-required-for-s3-module/16157 "2014-09-09T13:55:59Z")
Hi there, In the s3 module documentation would it be possible to include the minimum IAM permissions required? Many thanks --- ## [Are there any function to find duplication of file transfer destination in "copy" and "template" tasks](https://forum.ansible.com/t/are-there-any-function-to-find-duplication-of-file-transfer-destination-in-copy-and-template-tasks/16155)
**Author:** [@Masaru\_Dobashi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Masaru_Dobashi)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2014, 8:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/are-there-any-function-to-find-duplication-of-file-transfer-destination-in-copy-and-template-tasks/16155 "2014-09-09T08:51:36Z")
Hi all, I’m using Ansible for configuration management. Does Ansible have any function to detect overlaping of file modification in “copy” / “template” tasks? I want to get some messages or warnings to know overlaping… --- ## [Git module should have something similar to apt cache\_valid\_time #8917](https://forum.ansible.com/t/git-module-should-have-something-similar-to-apt-cache-valid-time-8917/16140)
**Author:** [@Adam\_Shorland](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Adam_Shorland)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/git-module-should-have-something-similar-to-apt-cache-valid-time-8917/16140 "2014-09-08T22:56:33Z")
This is a little thread to discuss the issue that I opened on github. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/8917 This would enable people to specify how long the local cache version of a repo is valid for (defaul… --- ## [Mulitple EC2 Provisioning - Do All or Do One and Make AMI?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mulitple-ec2-provisioning-do-all-or-do-one-and-make-ami/16144)
**Author:** [@Shih\_Oon\_Liong2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Shih_Oon_Liong2)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mulitple-ec2-provisioning-do-all-or-do-one-and-make-ami/16144 "2014-09-08T21:35:13Z")
I was wondering what is everyone’s experience with provisioning multiple EC2 instances with Ansible. I am contemplating between two methods. Example I want to provision 10 instances. Should I provisioning 10 EC2 insta… --- ## [AnsibleFest SF Speaker lineup posted (October 14th, San Francisco)](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansiblefest-sf-speaker-lineup-posted-october-14th-san-francisco/16152)
**Author:** [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2014, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansiblefest-sf-speaker-lineup-posted-october-14th-san-francisco/16152 "2014-09-08T21:30:56Z")
For those on the fence waiting to see what talks we were going to have this time, talks are now posted: http://www.ansible.com/ansiblefest-san-francisco I’m particularly looking forward to Telescope’s talk - they power… --- ## [Galaxy maintenance](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-maintenance/16148)
**Author:** [@James\_Cammarata](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Cammarata)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2014, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-maintenance/16148 "2014-09-08T18:41:21Z")
Hi all, We’re going to be pushing a small update to the Galaxy site in a few minutes. There may be a few minutes of downtime, but things should be back up and running quickly. Thanks! --- ## [Ansible & Oracle](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-oracle/16149)
**Author:** [@oravirt](https://forum.ansible.com/u/oravirt)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2014, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-oracle/16149 "2014-09-08T18:11:56Z")
Hi, I’ve created a bunch of roles to stand up Oracle databases in a variety of forms (Single Instance, RAC, RAC One-node). Code is available here Consider it a work in progress since I need to do quite a bit of clean-u… --- ## [Load callback plugins in the ansible script (GH #8396)](https://forum.ansible.com/t/load-callback-plugins-in-the-ansible-script-gh-8396/15849)
**Author:** [@zeglandos](https://forum.ansible.com/u/zeglandos)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2014, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/load-callback-plugins-in-the-ansible-script-gh-8396/15849 "2014-09-08T17:38:23Z")
This is an open discussion, since I’m far from an expert on ansible. However, since I often run some commands on a lot of host, I’ve written a small callback plugin that summarize output on stdout and stderr. I need th… --- ## [Feature request: special case for \* (star) tag](https://forum.ansible.com/t/feature-request-special-case-for-star-tag/16143)
**Author:** [@Dmitry\_Malinovsky](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dmitry_Malinovsky)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [September 8, 2014, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/feature-request-special-case-for-star-tag/16143 "2014-09-08T13:28:49Z")
Hello, If I repeat someone, please, point me in the right direction. I’m not the only guy who wants pre\_task and post\_tasks to work like setup/teardown methods and run regardless of any specified tags. Here is the disc… [Previous page](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=937) [Next page](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=939)