Ansible automated script:
tasks:
- name: copying catalina.out to /tmp/jagthish location
fetch:
src:
- yes
- /usr/tomcat/tomcat8/logs/catalina.out
dest: /tmp/jagthish/
error message:
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'startswith'
fatal: [ip]: FAILED! => {"failed": true, "msg": "Unexpected failure during module execution.", "stdout": ""}
I tried to copy a file (catalina.out) from remote server to my local server. it shows above error.
You can't provide a list to the src argument of fetch module. It expects a path to a file in a string.
You seem to want this:
- name: copying catalina.out to /tmp/jagthish location
fetch:
src: /usr/tomcat/tomcat8/logs/catalina.out
dest: /tmp/jagthish/
flat: yes
Related
I have tried something like this
- name: Create a directory
ansible.builtin.file:
path: /etc/fail2ban
state: directory
mode: '0755'
and I am a getting a error
fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "There was an issue creating /etc/fail2ban as requested: [Errno 13] Permission denied: b'/etc/fail2ban'", "path": "/etc/fail2ban"}
I am trying to create a directory on a remote server.
Need Help !!!
Thanks in advance.
Have you already tested the execution with become: yes?
- name: Create a directory
ansible.builtin.file:
path: /etc/fail2ban
state: directory
mode: '0755'
become: yes
See the Ansible docs for more information on become and privilege escalation.
Otherwise the output of stat might help you to understand what is going on. You could add the following two tasks before your file task:
- name: Get file stat
stat:
path: /etc/fail2ban
register: stat_result
- name: Print file stat
debug:
var: stat_result
Question - - how do you navigate the cygwin path structure for file transfers, copies and fetches?
I've installed ansible on a windows 10 machine using cygwin. Everthing works except for the ansible.builtin.copy task. Here is the setup
Relevant Directory Structure
C:.
├───.github
│ └───workflows
├───files
└───payload
├───communication
├───monitoring
The playbook sits in the documents directory of the user, so . is C:/Users/user/Documents/
Ansible Task
- name: Download YAML payloads
ansible.builtin.copy:
src: payload
dest: /some/directory/
The ansible cygwin command line actually runs from /cygdrive/c/Users... path. I can navigate to the payload directory from either windows cli or the cygwin cli using their native paths. [Must be a symlink?] In any event - when I run the above task, the src directory is not found.
What I've tried - both absolute and relative path variables in the src line, for both the cywgin and the windows paths. I've also tried using the inventory environment variables ({{ playbook_dir }}). fileglob: didn't work either.
What I haven't tried - {{ role_path }}. I'd like to keep the source YAMLs all together in the top directory. But not sure if this would work by putting the files directory under a role.
added details
Path to playbook from windows
C:\Users\billr\Documents\GitHub\home-k3s
Path to playbook from cygwin
/cygdrive/c/Users/billr/Documents/GitHub/home-k3
files & directories
home-k3s
files // these are the files/dirs I'm looking to copy
payload
communication
first.yaml
second.yaml
monitoring
first.yaml
second.yaml
hosts.ini //contains playbook hosts.
test.yml //this is the playbook I'm running
playbook cat
---
- hosts: master
gather_facts: yes
become: yes
tasks:
- name: Download YAML payloads
ansible.builtin.copy:
src: payload
dest: /home/bill/
Run #1
src: payload <-- this is the method per docs (for linux).
result: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Source payload not found"}
Run #2
src: "{{ playbook_dir }}/files/payload"
result: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Source /cygdrive/c/Users/billr/Documents/GitHub/home-k3s/files/payload not found"}
Run #3
src: "/cygdrive/c/Users/billr/Documents/GitHub/home-k3s/files/payload"
result: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Source /cygdrive/c/Users/billr/Documents/GitHub/home-k3s/files/payload not found"}
Run #4
src: "c:/Users/billr/Documents/GitHub/home-k3s/files/payload"
FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Source c:/Users/billr/Documents/GitHub/home-k3s/files/payload not found"}
Note that I can see the files from the cygwin terminal with ls and I can see the files from the windows cli with dir.
Final Notes
Cygwin Github Issue Link
I'm trying to fetch ActiveMQ Artemis using the following:
- name: Download the ActiveMQ Artemis artifact
get_url:
url: "https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?filename=activemq/activemq-artemis/{{ artemis_version }}/apache-artemis-{{ artemis_version }}-bin.tar.gz&action=download"
dest: "/tmp/apache-artemis-{{ artemis_version }}-bin.tar.gz"
#with fixed checksumm it works but breaks the idea of the version to be a variable.
#checksum: "sha512:4990a6b742b08bff6a4c7b310d2610565b08a2a02e1a7aec065460d16f8a6fe3d4fe91a8040839f93d7c2eab09fd6a79848fb130f9820559ee3e81dcf8d51ead"
#Getting "Unable to find a checksum for file 'closer.cgi' in 'https://downloads.apache.org/activemq/activemq-artemis/2.16.0/apache-artemis-2.16.0-bin.tar.gz.sha512'"
checksum: "sha512:https://downloads.apache.org/activemq/activemq-artemis/{{ artemis_version }}/apache-artemis-{{ artemis_version }}-bin.tar.gz.sha512"
#Also getting: fatal: [dev-broker-01]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "dest": "/tmp/apache-artemis-2.16.0-bin.tar.gz", "elapsed": 0, "msg": "Request failed: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:618)>", "url": "https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?filename=activemq/activemq-artemis/2.16.0/apache-artemis-2.16.0-bin.tar.gz&action=download"}
validate_certs: no
and getting: "Unable to find a checksum for file 'closer.cgi' in 'https://downloads.apache.org/activemq/activemq-artemis/2.16.0/apache-artemis-2.16.0-bin.tar.gz.sha512'"
It's not picking up the filename from dest: "/tmp/apache-artemis-{{ artemis_version }}-bin.tar.gz"
Also having some issue validating the certificate.
Any ideas how can I solve both problems?
The error seems to suggest that it is looking for checksum of file closer.cgi rather than the actual tar.gz file. And the filename in the checksum URL is: apache-artemis-2.16.0-bin.tar.gz.
The other way to specify the checksum, is to just supply the checksum string (without filename). Although for that we need to come up with a couple of tasks prior to get it.
Something like below:
- uri:
url: "https://downloads.apache.org/activemq/activemq-artemis/{{ artemis_version }}/apache-artemis-{{ artemis_version }}-bin.tar.gz.sha512"
return_content: true
register: url_sha512
- set_fact:
artemis_checksum: "{{ url_sha512.content.split(' ')[0] }}" # there are 2 spaces
- get_url:
url: "https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?filename=activemq/activemq-artemis/{{ artemis_version }}/apache-artemis-{{ artemis_version }}-bin.tar.gz&action=download"
dest: "/tmp/apache-artemis-{{ artemis_version }}-bin.tar.gz"
checksum: "sha512:{{ artemis_checksum }}"
# I was able to download without having below parameter
# validate_certs: no
Update:
This kind of approach can be useful when site directory cannot be browsed, and file must be obtained from a mirrored URL.
I like to use the synchronize module in Ansible to synchronize files from one server to some other servers via SSH
- name: Copy files to all servers
synchronize:
src: /source/path/
dest: "rsync://{{ ansible_nodename }}:/destination/path/"
delegate_to: src-host
So by default this module would use the inventory_name, but from the src-host the hostname is a different one. Only way I found so far was to use rsync://{{ ansible_nodename }}, but then it seems this is not happening via SSH anymore and I get a No route to host (113)\nrsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(128) [sender=3.1.0]
I tried also to overwrite inventory_hostname just for this one task, with no luck so far.
So for example I imagine something like this
- name: Copy custom config to all servers
synchronize:
src: /opt/app/dir/
dest: /opt/app/dir/
delegate_to: src-host
vars:
inventory_hostname: "{{ ansible_nodename }}"
But of course it fails when manipulating the inventory_hostname with following message
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback, use -vvv. The error was: jinja2.exceptions.UndefinedError: "hostvars['{{ ansible_nodename }}']" is undefined
fatal: [my-host]: FAILED! => {"msg": "Unexpected failure during module execution.", "stdout": ""}
If you want to copy something
from serverA
to serverB
using serverB's interface eth4 address, it should be like this:
- name: Copy custom config from serverA serverB over
synchronize:
src: "/path/to/source/on/serverA/machine"
dest: "rsync://{{ hostvars[serverB]['ansible_facts']['ansible_eth0']['ipv4']['address'] }} }}/path/where/to/put/files/on/serverB/machines"
delegate_to: serverA
If you want to template target string based on some hostname, you can use:
special variable inventory_hostname
(in case that your inventory hostname is not the real address) access other hosts variables e.g.:
{{hostvars[inventory_hostname]['ansible_facts']['ansible_fqdn']}}
I am trying to set a symlink from source to destination, but keep hitting
fatal: [default]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "Error while linking: [Errno 2] No such file or directory", "path": "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.11.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/include/ruby-2.0.0/ruby/config.h", "state": "absent"}
Observed that it shows state absent even though state is given as link.
This is the executed task:
- name: "Create ruby config.h symlink"
file:
src: "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.11.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/include/ruby-2.0.0/universal-darwin15/ruby/config.h"
dest: "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.11.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/include/ruby-2.0.0/ruby/config.h"
state: link
force: yes
when: xcode_version != "8.0"
File exists:
ls -l /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.11.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/include/ruby-2.0.0/universal-darwin15/ruby/config.h
-rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 7805 Jan 31 2016 /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.11.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/include/ruby-2.0.0/universal-darwin15/ruby/config.h
Note: Included force yes based on discussion here - Ansbible github issue
Any help is appreciated!
My answer may not address the OP question, but it certainly does cause this issue and so might explain another person running into this issue. I've often found such an error can be caused by a trailing / in the link name.
For example, a task to create a directory as below will succeed.
- name: ensure foobar directory exists
file:
state: directory
path: '/tmp/foobar/'
owner: 'foo'
group: 'bar'
mode: 0777
However, the subsequent link creation task, if written as below, will result in the error you're experiencing.
- name: Establish link to foobar
file:
src: '/tmp/foobar/'
dest: '/local/baz/'
state: link
Results in the below error.
fatal: [default]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg":
"Error while linking: [Errno 2] No such file or directory", "path":
"...",
"state": "absent"}
Removing the / as per below, can resolve this.
- name: Establish link to foobar
file:
src: '/tmp/foobar/'
dest: '/local/baz'
state: link
I'm not sure if a missing directory is the cause of the problem here but it's a good practice to ensure that the destination directory exists before creating a link that points to that directory:
- name: Ensure that the directory exist
file:
path: "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.11.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/include/ruby-2.0.0/ruby"
state: directory
mode: 0755
owner: root
group: wheel
- name: "Create ruby config.h symlink"
file:
...