# what does this command Mean? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [October 2, 2020, 8:28am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-does-this-command-mean/33950 "2020-10-02T08:28:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Prabhakaran\_Karuppai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@Prabhakaran\_Karuppai](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Prabhakaran_Karuppai)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 8:28am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-does-this-command-mean/33950/1 "2020-10-02T08:28:35Z")
ansible -m ping all Why am I getting the same warnings and Errors when I tried running my Playbook? (starfish.yml) So, that means: My Playbook is Right? But something important is Not. What is that? Please Help…Thank You. With Hope, Prabhakaran The following are the Warnings and Errors: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/parsing/vault/\__init_.py:44: CyptographyDeprecationWarning: Python 2 is no longer supported by the Python core team. Support for it is now deprecated in cryptography, and will be removed in a future release. from cryptography.exceptions import InvalidSignature [WARNING]: \* Failed to parse /etc/ansible/hosts with yaml plugin: We were unable to read either as JSON nor YAML, these are the errors we got from each: JSON: No JSON object could be decoded Syntax Error while loading YAML. expected ‘’, but found ‘[’ The error appears to be in ‘/etc/ansible/hosts’: line 4, column 1, but may be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem. The offending line appears to be:] [starfish] ^ here [WARNING]: \* Failed to parse /etc/ansible/hosts with ini plugin: need more than 2 values to upack [WARNING]: Unable to parse /etc/ansible/hosts as an inventory source [WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match ‘all’ ---
**Author:** ![Avinash\_Jadhav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/958977/32.png) [@Avinash\_Jadhav](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Avinash_Jadhav)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 8:40am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-does-this-command-mean/33950/2 "2020-10-02T08:40:57Z")
Hello Prabhakaran, What exactly you want try is it ping or any other task Please add the host/ target IP or DNS in hosts files the perform below operation If ping then try 1 create playbookdemo.yml 2 copy below code and paste playbookdemo.yml