# Latest **URL:** https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=990 [Latest](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.ansible.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.ansible.com/tags.md) **Page:** 991 --- ## [Override value from group\_vars/all if user enter value in vars\_prompt](https://forum.ansible.com/t/override-value-from-group-vars-all-if-user-enter-value-in-vars-prompt/14582)
**Author:** [@alex.lazun](https://forum.ansible.com/u/alex.lazun)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/override-value-from-group-vars-all-if-user-enter-value-in-vars-prompt/14582 "2014-02-17T21:08:30Z")
Hi, I’m need override some value from all file if user didn’t answer on some vars\_prompt prompt, or may be its possible to use value from “group\_vars/all” as default value for vars\_prompt in some way? Thanks. Best Reg… --- ## [hacking/env-setup prefixes not working on Mac with Ansible install](https://forum.ansible.com/t/hacking-env-setup-prefixes-not-working-on-mac-with-ansible-install/14580)
**Author:** [@Magnus\_Andersson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Magnus_Andersson)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2014, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/hacking-env-setup-prefixes-not-working-on-mac-with-ansible-install/14580 "2014-02-17T20:52:20Z")
Hi hacking/env-setup does not work for me. I’m on a Mac with a previous installation of Ansible via homebrew. The cause is easy to spot, but I’m wondering if there is a specific reason why it is setup in this way. Befo… --- ## [How to generate documentation for older versions locally](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-generate-documentation-for-older-versions-locally/14576)
**Author:** [@Javier\_Candeira](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Javier_Candeira)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-generate-documentation-for-older-versions-locally/14576 "2014-02-17T20:35:50Z")
I'm back working at a site where they've decided to pin their Ansible version to a given commit from around Sept 25, so v1.3.0+, but it was not picked in any of the v1.3.x point releases. Still, pre-v1.4. How can I ge… --- ## [Move a file from a remote host to the same remote host](https://forum.ansible.com/t/move-a-file-from-a-remote-host-to-the-same-remote-host/14569)
**Author:** [@Romain\_NIO](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Romain_NIO)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/move-a-file-from-a-remote-host-to-the-same-remote-host/14569 "2014-02-17T19:27:27Z")
Hi, I’m looking for a very simple thing : an ansible command to move a file (or a folder) to an other file/folder on the remote host. The ‘copy’ module can copy from the local machine to the remote host, I want the sam… --- ## [Improvement proposal: improve troubleshooting of commands that unexpectadly ask for user input](https://forum.ansible.com/t/improvement-proposal-improve-troubleshooting-of-commands-that-unexpectadly-ask-for-user-input/14552)
**Author:** [@Jakub\_Holy](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jakub_Holy)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2014, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/improvement-proposal-improve-troubleshooting-of-commands-that-unexpectadly-ask-for-user-input/14552 "2014-02-17T15:17:22Z")
Hello, When I run a command that asks for user input, Ansible 1.4.4 hangs without any indication of what is going on. When I interrupt it with Ctrl-C, it prints a stacktrace that also contains noindication of the root c… --- ## [Set default owner for all the file (or template) resources in a role](https://forum.ansible.com/t/set-default-owner-for-all-the-file-or-template-resources-in-a-role/14577)
**Author:** [@Tomas\_Karasek1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tomas_Karasek1)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2014, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/set-default-owner-for-all-the-file-or-template-resources-in-a-role/14577 "2014-02-17T15:15:42Z")
Hello, I found a role in galaxy and it’s creating config files for a service. The author was running it without sudo. When I run it with sudo, the config files (created by template module) are owned by the ansible\_ssh\_u… --- ## [Loading vars about a host which isn't part of the play](https://forum.ansible.com/t/loading-vars-about-a-host-which-isnt-part-of-the-play/14575)
**Author:** [@Christopher\_O\_Connel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Christopher_O_Connel)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/loading-vars-about-a-host-which-isnt-part-of-the-play/14575 "2014-02-17T15:14:08Z")
Hello, I’ve been digging through the ansible source, and I believe my current approach to a problem is impossible without making changes in core, which I prefer not to do, so I’m looking for an alternative solution. In… --- ## [Looping group\_vars into a template](https://forum.ansible.com/t/looping-group-vars-into-a-template/14566)
**Author:** [@jepper](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jepper)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/looping-group-vars-into-a-template/14566 "2014-02-17T14:45:11Z")
This is a bit over my head, so I’m going to ask. I have several environments, with many variables defined using group\_vars, e.g. test1/group\_vars/all test2/group\_vars/all I have mule in each environment, and I need t… --- ## [Using pause module the perform reboot during playbook](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-pause-module-the-perform-reboot-during-playbook/12007)
**Author:** [@Gregory\_Shulov](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Gregory_Shulov)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/using-pause-module-the-perform-reboot-during-playbook/12007 "2014-02-17T02:44:37Z")
Hi All, I am trying to update kernel in playbook and reboot the server without existing playbook. Here is the example: Temprorary hack that fixes mismatched kernel and kernel module versions name: “Restart VM to Loa… --- ## [Custom item output](https://forum.ansible.com/t/custom-item-output/14554)
**Author:** [@Rumen\_Telbizov](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Rumen_Telbizov)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [February 15, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/custom-item-output/14554 "2014-02-15T22:15:19Z")
Hello ansible list, Here’s a quick question that I was trying to find an answer for. Maybe I am missing the obvious but I can’t find a way to control the output of the “item” variable during a loop (with\_items) while th… --- ## [Circular dependency issue in release 1.4 ?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/circular-dependency-issue-in-release-1-4/13977)
**Author:** [@Mathieu\_Leduc-Hamel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mathieu_Leduc-Hamel)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [February 15, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/circular-dependency-issue-in-release-1-4/13977 "2014-02-15T20:37:03Z")
I’ve just upgrade my installation of ansible with the latest release and it seems there’s an issue with the callbacks module: Considering the following directory structure: ansible/ callbacks.py utils/ init.py call… --- ## [the transition from manual to ansible with version control](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-transition-from-manual-to-ansible-with-version-control/14572)
**Author:** [@networkserf](https://forum.ansible.com/u/networkserf)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 15, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/the-transition-from-manual-to-ansible-with-version-control/14572 "2014-02-15T14:52:48Z")
Hi I’m looking for articles or suggestions on how to move my old-school enterprise to contemporary devops practices (starting with config management). I’ve been using ansible in my development environment for a couple o… --- ## [Fetch from URL to local machine and then copy to remote](https://forum.ansible.com/t/fetch-from-url-to-local-machine-and-then-copy-to-remote/14519)
**Author:** [@Martin\_Johren](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Martin_Johren)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 15, 2014, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/fetch-from-url-to-local-machine-and-then-copy-to-remote/14519 "2014-02-15T13:54:41Z")
Hi, I am looking for a way to download a file to the local machine where ansible was started and then copy that file to the remote server. Background: due to security issues we cannot directly download the file from our… --- ## [Transparently Encrypt Select Files within a Git Repository](https://forum.ansible.com/t/transparently-encrypt-select-files-within-a-git-repository/14567)
**Author:** [@Aaron\_Bull\_Schaefer](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Aaron_Bull_Schaefer)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 14, 2014, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/transparently-encrypt-select-files-within-a-git-repository/14567 "2014-02-14T18:00:15Z")
Since the discussion for a built-in "vault" feature seems to have died down, I started looking into alternatives for managing sensitive information (like passwords and private keys) for use with my Ansible playbooks. … --- ## [Help writing remote command result to file.](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-writing-remote-command-result-to-file/14563)
**Author:** [@txemi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/txemi)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 14, 2014, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-writing-remote-command-result-to-file/14563 "2014-02-14T00:42:27Z")
I am having problems doing something I think it should be really easy. I am writting a rule that remote execs a command and I want the results stored locally. (It is an nmap command) I think I could do it two rules, on… --- ## [Ansible on AIX](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-on-aix/14553)
**Author:** [@Bill\_King](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bill_King)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-on-aix/14553 "2014-02-13T23:49:46Z")
Has anybody used ansible on AIX? --- ## [ansible-testing](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-testing/14328)
**Author:** [@willthames](https://forum.ansible.com/u/willthames)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-testing/14328 "2014-02-13T23:49:30Z")
Infrastructure testing is typically awkward and reliant on ruby gems (e.g. serverspec, cucumber). One of the things I’ve often dreamed of is a test framework that allows tests to be run both on the server being tested (… --- ## [Ansible Deploy quits on error](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-deploy-quits-on-error/14557)
**Author:** [@Alex\_Chumbley](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Alex_Chumbley)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-deploy-quits-on-error/14557 "2014-02-13T16:27:25Z")
Whenever I try to deploy my app using ansible-playbook, it fails on start app since it says “ERROR (no such process)”. Can’t understand why this is happening. Anyone know good docs on this stuff or know the answer? --- ## [Allow roles to be applied from the command line](https://forum.ansible.com/t/allow-roles-to-be-applied-from-the-command-line/14559)
**Author:** [@Bruno\_Lara\_Tavares](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bruno_Lara_Tavares)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/allow-roles-to-be-applied-from-the-command-line/14559 "2014-02-13T16:00:51Z")
Hi there, I just started using Ansible, and coming from other provisioning tools, I created several different roles. On the documentation you are able to run ansible webservers -m service -a "name=httpd state=running" … --- ## [dynamic inventory from .ssh/config](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dynamic-inventory-from-ssh-config/14562)
**Author:** [@Tomas\_Karasek1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tomas_Karasek1)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2014, 2:39pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/dynamic-inventory-from-ssh-config/14562 "2014-02-13T14:39:34Z")
Hello, at first, thanks for all the good work on Ansible, I like the project a lot! I spent more than a year working with Puppet, and I have to say that using Ansible is much less headache. I tend to work with nodes of… --- ## [What happend to "Why we won't be submitting patches"?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-happend-to-why-we-wont-be-submitting-patches/14560)
**Author:** [@Oliver\_Heinz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Oliver_Heinz)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-happend-to-why-we-wont-be-submitting-patches/14560 "2014-02-13T13:49:27Z")
I got the daily mailing list digest and wanted to read the the initial posting and Michael DeHaans reply. But Google groups tells me “The requested topic cannot be found. It might have been deleted.” As Michael DeHaan d… --- ## [Unit Testing modules like rax and ec2](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unit-testing-modules-like-rax-and-ec2/14522)
**Author:** [@sivel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sivel)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2014, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unit-testing-modules-like-rax-and-ec2/14522 "2014-02-13T13:13:28Z")
James Tanner approached me about thinking of ways to unit test our cloud modules a day or so ago, and since then he and I have been chatting about ideas to make unit testing modules like rax and ec2 possible. Currently t… --- ## [When ansible1.4.5 will be released?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/when-ansible1-4-5-will-be-released/14538)
**Author:** [@Stan\_Kel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Stan_Kel)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2014, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/when-ansible1-4-5-will-be-released/14538 "2014-02-13T12:56:54Z")
I’ve noticed that Tower 1.4.5 has already been released http://blog.ansibleworks.com/2014/02/10/tower-1-4-5-formerly-awx-released/, but no ansible yet. Shouldn’t they be in sync? If not, when ansible 1.4.5 is going to … --- ## [role dependencies](https://forum.ansible.com/t/role-dependencies/14549)
**Author:** [@Mark\_Maas](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mark_Maas)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2014, 6:31am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/role-dependencies/14549 "2014-02-13T06:31:17Z")
Hi List, In a role that installs a mcafee antivirus scanner on linux (Don’t ask why; short answer: corporate policy made up by windows people) I have defined a role dependency like so: mmaas@xmgtansible:~/playbooks$ c… --- ## [ansible-galaxy Readme formatting](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-galaxy-readme-formatting/14556)
**Author:** [@James\_Martin2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Martin2)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-galaxy-readme-formatting/14556 "2014-02-13T03:44:20Z")
I spent a fair amount of time writing up documentation for my role(s), only to find that Galaxy doesn’t like Markdown’s table syntax. For example this is how it looks on github: https://github.com/basho/ansible-riak/bl… --- ## [Ansible version 1.4.5 is now available](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-version-1-4-5-is-now-available/14558)
**Author:** [@James\_Cammarata](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Cammarata)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2014, 2:15am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-version-1-4-5-is-now-available/14558 "2014-02-13T02:15:22Z")
Ansible 1.4.5 is now available, and addresses a local security issue involving fireball/accelerate keys, where those keys (and the directory containing them) might be created with permissions that were too open if the sy… --- ## [Multiple handler notifications with same handler name, only one is executed](https://forum.ansible.com/t/multiple-handler-notifications-with-same-handler-name-only-one-is-executed/14545)
**Author:** [@Jose\_Chavez](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jose_Chavez)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2014, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/multiple-handler-notifications-with-same-handler-name-only-one-is-executed/14545 "2014-02-12T18:24:08Z")
Hello Ansible devs, I seem to have hit a regression in Ansible 1.4.3. I have a very simple ansible playbook with one role and a handler file that contains two notification. The role calls notify against the name of the … --- ## [Mixing dynamic & static inventory : sharing groups](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mixing-dynamic-static-inventory-sharing-groups/14551)
**Author:** [@Michel\_Blanc](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michel_Blanc)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mixing-dynamic-static-inventory-sharing-groups/14551 "2014-02-12T13:12:59Z")
Hi, I'm trying to mix dynamic & static inventory, but I fall short having these inventories cooperating with each other. My playbook is supposed to : - handle droplet creation on Digital Ocean - provision each dropl… --- ## [How do I handle a failure to connect to SSH on port 22?](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-do-i-handle-a-failure-to-connect-to-ssh-on-port-22/14544)
**Author:** [@Randolph\_Kahle](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Randolph_Kahle)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2014, 2:50am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-do-i-handle-a-failure-to-connect-to-ssh-on-port-22/14544 "2014-02-12T02:50:49Z")
I am still working on bootstrapping compute instances and exploring the boundary between where a provisioning service (e.g. Vagrant) stops and Ansible starts. I prefer to run SSH on a non-standard port (2222) instead of… --- ## [Merging module library paths](https://forum.ansible.com/t/merging-module-library-paths/14518)
**Author:** [@willthames](https://forum.ansible.com/u/willthames)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2014, 2:16am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/merging-module-library-paths/14518 "2014-02-12T02:16:53Z")
I run ansible from source, so my ANSIBLE\_LIBRARY is set using hacking/env-setup. However, I would like to be able to add additional libraries outside of ansible, without having a different env-setup (or not running it a… [Previous page](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=989) [Next page](https://forum.ansible.com/latest.md?page=991)