# ansible connection issue on remote RHE5 linux server

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-connection-issue-on-remote-rhe5-linux-server/37604>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [February 1, 2023, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-connection-issue-on-remote-rhe5-linux-server/37604 "2023-02-01T17:35:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![anish\_kumar2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@anish\_kumar2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/anish_kumar2)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2023, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-connection-issue-on-remote-rhe5-linux-server/37604/1 "2023-02-01T17:35:13Z")

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I am able to connect on other linux server from ansible but getting error on below server

atal localhost-\>192.168.101.12]: FAILED! =\> changed": false, “module\_stderr”: “Shared connection to 192.168.101.12]closed in”, “module.stdout”:"File W/home/web/ak1/ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1675175673.3860075-51234- 280095385528185/AnsiballZ\_command.py", line 72n with open(args.path. 'rb) as fin “Ventadmor invalid syntaxin”, “msg”: "MODULE FAILURE\See stdout/stderr for the exact error, “rc”:1}

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**Author:** ![sivel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/sivel/32/1198_2.png) [@sivel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sivel)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2023, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-connection-issue-on-remote-rhe5-linux-server/37604/2 "2023-02-01T17:36:51Z")

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RHEL5 hasn’t been supported since Ansible 2.3, due to its use of Python2.4.

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**Author:** ![anish\_kumar2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@anish\_kumar2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/anish_kumar2)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 4:43am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-connection-issue-on-remote-rhe5-linux-server/37604/3 "2023-02-02T04:43:32Z")

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what is the fixes for this issue

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**Author:** ![Walter\_Rowe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/walter_rowe/32/4506_2.png) [@Walter\_Rowe](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Walter_Rowe)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-connection-issue-on-remote-rhe5-linux-server/37604/4 "2023-02-02T13:33:40Z")

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Upgrade to a supported version of RHEL. RHEL5 has not been updated in years. Lots of vulnerabilities with RHEL5.

[https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata](https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata)

[https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078#RHEL5](https://access.redhat.com/articles/3078#RHEL5)

Walter