# Change rsync options on synchronize actions

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/change-rsync-options-on-synchronize-actions/16554>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ubuntu\
**Created:** [October 19, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/change-rsync-options-on-synchronize-actions/16554 "2014-10-19T18:05:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Joseph\_Jenkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@Joseph\_Jenkins](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Joseph_Jenkins)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/change-rsync-options-on-synchronize-actions/16554/1 "2014-10-19T18:05:28Z")

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I am trying to keep the hosts file synchronized on several ubuntu hosts and getting:

failed: [172.16.1.100] =\> {“failed”: true, “item”: “”, “md5sum”: “cda722545bb95ca3925348b3adbe42f3”}

msg: Destination /etc not writable

I have tried using the copy module and the synchronize module and running into the same issue. I can get the rsync command to work if I use the --inplace option. Is there a way to change the default behaviour of how Ansible runs rsync? It is using it with the delayed updates:

cmd": “rsync --delay-updates -FF …”

Can I turn that off or change it?

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2014, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/change-rsync-options-on-synchronize-actions/16554/2 "2014-10-20T20:59:25Z")

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Not currently, there is a feature request for this that is currently open though.