# 3rd machine fails on moving a tar file...every time, not the same machine

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/3rd-machine-fails-on-moving-a-tar-file-every-time-not-the-same-machine/19908>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [December 1, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/3rd-machine-fails-on-moving-a-tar-file-every-time-not-the-same-machine/19908 "2015-12-01T15:58:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![richard\_kappler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@richard\_kappler](https://forum.ansible.com/u/richard_kappler)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2015, 3:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/3rd-machine-fails-on-moving-a-tar-file-every-time-not-the-same-machine/19908/1 "2015-12-01T15:58:57Z")

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Good day. We’re new to Ansible so we might be missing something obvious.

We have a playbook that deploys a splunk forwarder to remote machines:

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**Author:** ![Mitch\_Turner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Mitch\_Turner](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mitch_Turner)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/3rd-machine-fails-on-moving-a-tar-file-every-time-not-the-same-machine/19908/2 "2015-12-03T21:30:33Z")

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Try adding -vvv to the command ansible-playbook -vvv -i inventory splFwdr.yml, as far as order of hosts my understanding is that ansible is doing each machine in parallel and one of the machines may be taking a variable amount of time to get going.