# stdout'\\n\\nThe error appears to have been in '/home/

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/stdout-n-nthe-error-appears-to-have-been-in-home/27887>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [June 27, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/stdout-n-nthe-error-appears-to-have-been-in-home/27887 "2018-06-27T18:51:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ahmed\_Aljawad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@Ahmed\_Aljawad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ahmed_Aljawad)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/stdout-n-nthe-error-appears-to-have-been-in-home/27887/1 "2018-06-27T18:51:24Z")

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## Error###

‘stdout’\n\nThe error appears to have been in ‘/home/nwadmin/Backup.yml’: line 15, column 8, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n register: config\n - name: save-output-to/etc/ansible/BackupRepository\n ^ here\n"}

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**Author:** ![j.r.hawkesworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@j.r.hawkesworth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/j.r.hawkesworth)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 9:27am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/stdout-n-nthe-error-appears-to-have-been-in-home/27887/2 "2018-06-28T09:27:58Z")

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What ansible version are you using, and how are you running the playbook?

I can get that playbook to parse using ansible 2.5.0

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**Author:** ![Ahmed\_Aljawad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@Ahmed\_Aljawad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ahmed_Aljawad)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2018, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/stdout-n-nthe-error-appears-to-have-been-in-home/27887/3 "2018-06-28T15:45:16Z")

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[nwadmin@ddcmgtnwbkp ~]$ ansible --version  
ansible 2.5.3  
config file = /home/nwadmin/ansible.cfg  
configured module search path = [u’/home/nwadmin/.ansible/plugins/modules’, u’/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules’]  
ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible  
executable location = /usr/bin/ansible  
python version = 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Aug 18 2016, 08:36:59) [GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-17)]