I'm fine with making the "scp_if_ssh" controllable via a per-group or per-host inventory variable, such as "ansible_scp_if_ssh" as we have with control over SSH ports, sudo users, and other things.
That probably seems best in your case. I would suggest to either open a github ticket for the feature idea (or ... strongly strongly preferred if you're wanting this soon) submit a pull request that adds it. I don't think we would want to have retry logic present as it would be, if anything, a bit slower, when we knew we wanted one or the other, and also maybe a bit error prone in the detection. --Michael On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Adam Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > This time I will hopefully not hit the wrong key and post my message > before actually entering the body of it. (Sorry about that). > > First the Kudos... > > I've been playing with Ansible for the last few months getting it to do > some base server configuration for me, and I am truly impressed with how > well it works on Linux. > > Earlier this week I sat down and tested the same configuration bits on an > AIX server and was even more impressed. There were a few (minor) gotchas > where I had to go in and add some OS specific variables into my playbooks > but for the most part it generally just worked. > As a result I had the same base configuration steps working for AIX within > a day. A few differences exist, the biggest is that for Linux I am only > performing a minimal OS install and the Ansible playbook pulls in all of > the software packages that I need. For AIX there is no Ansible package > management option so I am assuming that my install will have to include > everything that I need (not a big deal). The one portion that didn't just > work is the System Cron module. crontab on AIX has a different syntax from > Linux and Solaris. I've modified the module to work for AIX and will be > testing it in the next few days and submitting a pull request as soon as I > am happy that it works. > > And now my (probably dumb) question... > > When I was using Ansible with an AIX host I discovered that I had to > change a parameter in the configuration file to get it to work. When I > went back to a clean Linux build I had to explicitly take the same option > back out. > The option in question is "scp_if_ssh = True" Without that I couldn't get > the AIX host to talk to me... with it I couldn't get the minimal RedHat > host to talk to me. Is there any way that I can set that behaviour based > on OS or do I need to develop a smart SSH copy option that uses one and > falls back to the other if it doesn't work? > > Thanks, > > Adam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> CTO, AnsibleWorks, Inc. http://www.ansibleworks.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
