ansible.cfg ignored in Mac OS X 10.9

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Hi there,

I am using ansible from github checkout (ansible 1.5 (devel 87e7b9e5cc) last updated 2014/01/16 15:40:55 (GMT +200)), and doing the normal “source $ANSIBLE_HOME/hacking/env-setup” to get things working.
My OS is Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)

I have a small ansible project using roles, and on the root of that project, I have “ansible.cfg” with a bunch of settings.

The thing is, the config file it’s not being respected; I have tried to put it in ~/.ansible.cfg, and also on /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg, but when I run “ansible-playbook site.yml” it totally ignores the config file.

Also, I have tested with the pip’s version of ansible (ansible 1.4.4), still no sucess!
Running my project on a CentOS 6.5 box, everything works has expected, and the config file is respected.

Is someone else having this issues, or is able to replicate my setup?

Thank you in advance!

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Maybe you could share your ansible.cfg file with us? Maybe there is an issue there. I have seen some people use [default] as a section header before, however the section header is really [defaults].

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Pretty sure this isn’t broke, let us know how you think it is?

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I have answered yesterday, but it seems that my answer did not got here…
Here is my ansible.cfg:
https://gist.github.com/mgarces/f044f586afbbb150c254

It’s a very simple one. I know it’s working when I can call ansible-playbook without the -i argument.

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Yep, you had replied to me directly instead.

There’s nothing that would cause a configuration file to have any problems on OS X specifically.

You might have to do some more digging.

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I dont know how this was fixed… but:

I did a checkout from git, for my own project, and now it works as it should.

No clue what was wrong on the other directory… =/

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I have this same problem. ansible.cfg is ignored in all places, OS X 10.9.1. I’ll post back if I get it working.
One thing to note is if I introduce a syntax error in ./ansible.cfg, ansible immediately complains. When I remove it, ansible runs fine but ignores the actual config.

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There’s nothing OS X specific about this.

Really, there is not :slight_smile:

I suspect you may have a header that is not “defaults” so your INI file is in the wrong section or something.

Pasting your ansible.cfg contents may help.

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[default]
hostfile = hosts
host_key_checking = False
forks = 15

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You’re right, default vs defaults typo!