How to store ansible running log to separate log file without touch ANSIBLE_LOG_PATH or ansible.cfg

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Hi All,
This is Peter and I am newer to Ansible.

I am trying to store the ansible running log to a file. And every playbook will have separate ansible running log file.
I know I can use ‘export ANSIBLE_LOG_PATH=~/share/logging/peter.log’ this variable to do this. But is there any other way?

I prefer a command line parameter or a module. I would like to do some development work but I need some directive guidance.

I cannot use plugin because I cannot affect other ansible users, also I have no right to change the ansible.cfg file. Too much limitataion from the boss, right?

Thanks for any help.

Best Regards,
Peter Qin

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How about running the ansible playbook Andy pipe to tee command such as this

Ansible-playbook -I inventory dummy.yml | tee playbook.log

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Thanks for the help.
The customer will execute the command so I should work in the playbook.
And what I need to store is running log like below, not the stand output. Do you have any other suggestions? Thanks.

1 2019-02-28 21:27:57,795 p=6115 u=peterqi | PLAY [test1 output] ***********************************************************************************************************>
2 2019-02-28 21:27:57,806 p=6115 u=peterqi | TASK [Gathering Facts] ********************************************************************************************************>
3 2019-02-28 21:27:58,259 paramiko.transport starting thread (client mode): 0xfa683450L
4 2019-02-28 21:27:58,259 paramiko.transport Local version/idstring: SSH-2.0-paramiko_2.4.1
5 2019-02-28 21:27:58,267 paramiko.transport Remote version/idstring: SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_6.6.1
6 2019-02-28 21:27:58,267 paramiko.transport Connected (version 2.0, client OpenSSH_6.6.1)
7 2019-02-28 21:27:58,270 paramiko.transport kex algos:[u’curve25519-sha256@libssh.org’, u’ecdh-sha2-nistp256’, u’ecdh-sha2-nistp384’, u’ecdh-sha2-nistp521’, u’diffie-hellma>
8 2019-02-28 21:27:58,270 paramiko.transport Kex agreed: ecdh-sha2-nistp256
9 2019-02-28 21:27:58,270 paramiko.transport HostKey agreed: ssh-ed25519
10 2019-02-28 21:27:58,270 paramiko.transport Cipher agreed: aes128-ctr
11 2019-02-28 21:27:58,270 paramiko.transport MAC agreed: hmac-sha2-256
12 2019-02-28 21:27:58,270 paramiko.transport Compression agreed: none

在 2019年3月1日星期五 UTC+8下午2:37:00，Tony Chia写道：

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If you are trying to get debug or connection info , try adding -vvvvv to tha ansible-playbook command.

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Try creating an alias.

alias ansible-playbook='ANSIBLE_LOG_PATH="${HOME}/logs/ansible-$(date +%H%M%S).log" ansible-playbook'