custom logging for one role

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I have a cron job that runs a playbook quarterly. For this one playbook only I wish to log to a separate file (for audit reasons). Is this possible with a command line switch? I haven’t seen a way to do this online, nor do I see any options–hence the reason I am asking. I don’t care if it continues to copy it to ansible.log, I just need the output for this one run in another file.

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I am currently getting the information right now with a sed command, but am curious if there is another way via ansible to pipe the output for this one play to another log:

`
crontab command:
echo “=fetch_start=” >> /var/log/ansible.log; ansible-playbook /some/path/main.yml -f 1 -e host=production; echo “=fetch_stop=” >> /var/log/ansible.log

sed:
sed -n ‘/=fetch_start=/,/=fetch_stop=/p’ /var/log/ansible.log > /var/log/fetch_users-ansible.log

`

3

Just set the environment variable ANSIBLE_LOG_PATH
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/config.html#default-log-path

4

Thanks again Kai

5

I set this on the play level; however, it fails to create the file. Am I missing something?

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6

You would need to set it before you start ansible-playbook, you can do this in your crontab

ANSIBLE_LOG_PATH=/tmp/fetch_admin_users_ansible.log ansible-playbook ....

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ok, thank you.