# spacewalk.py issues and questions **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [July 15, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/spacewalk-py-issues-and-questions/15678 "2014-07-15T14:37:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![David\_Jacobs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71c47a/32.png) [@David\_Jacobs](https://forum.ansible.com/u/David_Jacobs)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/spacewalk-py-issues-and-questions/15678/1 "2014-07-15T14:37:54Z")
I am trying to get a good inventory from both a spacewalk and an older satellite server. I was able to share the spacewalk.py script with those server and produce an output, which is all one 1 line, and looks something like this: {“CentOS6\_Servers”: [“server1”, “server2”, “server3”, “server4”, “server5”, … etc for 600+ servers and many many groops. When I try this: ansible CentOS6\_Servers -a “hostname” -i /etc/ansible/inventory/spacewalk\_list\_07-11-2014.txt I get this → ERROR: Invalid ini entry: [[ncias-p584.nci.nih.gov](http://ncias-p584.nci.nih.gov), - need more than 1 value to unpack Is this due to the file being all one line? Is this improper YAML syntax, maybe? Sorry, I am a new to YAML Syntax, and Ansible. Am I using spacewalk.py incorrectly? Thanks for assistance you can give me. ---
**Author:** ![Tomasz\_Kontusz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tomasz\_Kontusz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tomasz_Kontusz)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 7:50am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/spacewalk-py-issues-and-questions/15678/2 "2014-07-16T07:50:03Z")
David Jacobs \ napisał: > I am trying to get a good inventory from both a spacewalk and an older > satellite server. I was able to share the spacewalk.py script with > those > server and produce an output, which is all one 1 line, and looks > something > like this: {"CentOS6\_Servers": ["server1", "server2", "server3", > "server4", "server5", ... etc for 600+ servers and many many groops. > > When I try this: > > ansible CentOS6\_Servers -a "hostname" -i > /etc/ansible/inventory/spacewalk\_list\_07-11-2014.txt > > I get this -\> ERROR: Invalid ini entry: [ncias-p584.nci.nih.gov, - > need > more than 1 value to unpack > > Is this due to the file being all one line? Is this improper YAML > syntax, > maybe? Sorry, I am a new to YAML Syntax, and Ansible. > > Am I using spacewalk.py incorrectly? Yes. You should point Ansible to the script, not saved output (if the file given to -i is executable, Ansible will use it as dynamic inventory). The error you are getting says that Ansible expects static inventories to be in an INI-like syntax. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Jacobs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71c47a/32.png) [@David\_Jacobs](https://forum.ansible.com/u/David_Jacobs)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/spacewalk-py-issues-and-questions/15678/3 "2014-07-16T14:16:53Z")
so, like this? ansible -i spacewalk.py textfile.txt? ---
**Author:** ![Tomasz\_Kontusz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tomasz\_Kontusz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tomasz_Kontusz)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/spacewalk-py-issues-and-questions/15678/4 "2014-07-16T16:31:14Z")
David Jacobs \ napisał: > so, like this? > > ansible -i spacewalk.py textfile.txt? More like: ansible CentOS6\_Servers -i spacewalk.py -m ping What was textfile.txt meant to be? ---
**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:** [July 16, 2014, 7:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/spacewalk-py-issues-and-questions/15678/5 "2014-07-16T19:37:54Z")
ansible -i spacewalk.py playbook.yml and spacewalk.py should be marked executable (chmod +x) ---
**Author:** ![Tomasz\_Kontusz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tomasz\_Kontusz](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tomasz_Kontusz)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2014, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/spacewalk-py-issues-and-questions/15678/6 "2014-07-16T19:48:19Z")
Dnia śro, 16 lip 2014, 21:37:54 Michael DeHaan pisze: > ansible -i spacewalk.py playbook.yml You mean "ansible-playbook -i spacewalk.py playbook.yml"? ---
**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:** [July 16, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/spacewalk-py-issues-and-questions/15678/7 "2014-07-16T23:49:49Z")
yes