template module bombing out

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ansible 1.6.10

This task:

  • name: Copy admin pwd chg ldif to target
    template: src=admin-pwd-chg.ldif.j2 dest=/tmp/

is leaving /tmp/admin-pwd-chg.ldif.j2 instead of admin-pwd-chg.ldif The variables in it are being expanded.

-vvvv output:

TASK: [apacheds | Copy admin pwd chg ldif to target] **************************
ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: joliver
EXEC [‘ssh’, ‘-C’, ‘-tt’, ‘-vvv’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlMaster=auto’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPersist=60s’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPath=/Users/joliver/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r’, ‘-o’, ‘KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey’, ‘-o’, ‘PasswordAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘ConnectTimeout=10’, ‘jedis-test’, “/bin/sh -c ‘mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1407442699.07-10863228717998 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1407442699.07-10863228717998 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1407442699.07-10863228717998’”]
EXEC [‘ssh’, ‘-C’, ‘-tt’, ‘-vvv’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlMaster=auto’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPersist=60s’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPath=/Users/joliver/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r’, ‘-o’, ‘KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey’, ‘-o’, ‘PasswordAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘ConnectTimeout=10’, ‘jedis-test’, u’/bin/sh -c 'sudo -k && sudo -H -S -p “[sudo via ansible, key=kwyctxvepfhnnbaahrwvljxgtsdvpnur] password: " -u root /bin/sh -c '”'“'echo SUDO-SUCCESS-kwyctxvepfhnnbaahrwvljxgtsdvpnur; rc=0; [ -r “/tmp/admin-pwd-chg.ldif.j2” ] || rc=2; [ -f “/tmp/admin-pwd-chg.ldif.j2” ] || rc=1; [ -d “/tmp/admin-pwd-chg.ldif.j2” ] && echo 3 && exit 0; (/usr/bin/md5sum /tmp/admin-pwd-chg.ldif.j2 2>/dev/null) || (/sbin/md5sum -q /tmp/admin-pwd-chg.ldif.j2 2>/dev/null) || (/usr/bin/digest -a md5 /tmp/admin-pwd-chg.ldif.j2 2>/dev/null) || (/sbin/md5 -q /tmp/admin-pwd-chg.ldif.j2 2>/dev/null) || (/usr/bin/md5 -n /tmp/admin-pwd-chg.ldif.j2 2>/dev/null) || (/bin/md5 -q /tmp/admin-pwd-chg.ldif.j2 2>/dev/null) || (/usr/bin/csum -h MD5 /tmp/admin-pwd-chg.ldif.j2 2>/dev/null) || (/bin/csum -h MD5 /tmp/admin-pwd-chg.ldif.j2 2>/dev/null) || (echo “${rc} /tmp/admin-pwd-chg.ldif.j2”)'”'“''‘]
PUT /var/folders/67/dk8m_22d413fhslkhh4dwkzr0000gn/T/tmpkBftoy TO /home/joliver/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1407442699.07-10863228717998/source
PUT /var/folders/67/dk8m_22d413fhslkhh4dwkzr0000gn/T/tmpKQfnIR TO /home/joliver/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1407442699.07-10863228717998/copy
EXEC [‘ssh’, ‘-C’, ‘-tt’, ‘-vvv’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlMaster=auto’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPersist=60s’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPath=/Users/joliver/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r’, ‘-o’, ‘KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey’, ‘-o’, ‘PasswordAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘ConnectTimeout=10’, ‘jedis-test’, u’/bin/sh -c 'sudo -k && sudo -H -S -p “[sudo via ansible, key=wdssxeblwbwzcnbalsyidqzsjgqmxxcc] password: " -u root /bin/sh -c '”'”'echo SUDO-SUCCESS-wdssxeblwbwzcnbalsyidqzsjgqmxxcc; LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /usr/bin/python /home/joliver/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1407442699.07-10863228717998/copy; rm -rf /home/joliver/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1407442699.07-10863228717998/ >/dev/null 2>&1'“'”''']
changed: [jedis-test] => {“changed”: true, “dest”: “/tmp/admin-pwd-chg.ldif.j2”, “gid”: 0, “group”: “root”, “md5sum”: “47ebafe65449834031c310ceb02b9310”, “mode”: “0611”, “owner”: “root”, “secontext”: “unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0”, “size”: 90, “src”: “/home/joliver/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1407442699.07-10863228717998/source”, “state”: “file”, “uid”: 0}

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Hi,

AFAIK it is correct and ansible is doing it at least from 1.1 (when I started with it). If you set only path, template file name is just copied as is in src argument.

template: src=admin-pwd-chg.ldif.j2 dest=/tmp/admin-pwd-chg.ldif

will work.

David

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When you don’t specify a destination path, it is going to use the filename to decide the filename of the output.

The solution would be to specify the full path to the destination file.