Hi Michael,
sure the version info and output are much needed !
I had a very similar uses case to what I understood from Nick.
I needed to insert/insure a line such as below being declared in
/etc/hosts.deny file:
ALL: ALL
Using the lineinfile module, the only way I found for a line to contain a
column character, is to use something like I described.
That is having a variable being defined like:
a_column: "\x3A"
and in the playbook a task like:
lineinfile:
dest=/etc/hosts.deny
state=present
regexp='^ALL:\s+ALL'
line="ALL{{ a_column }} ALL"
insertafter=EOF
Having the following task will not work:
lineinfile:
dest=/etc/hosts.deny
state=present
regexp='^ALL:\s+ALL'
line="ALL: ALL"
and lead to the following output:
ERROR: Syntax Error while loading YAML script,
<path>/host_access_restricted/tasks/main.yml
Note: The error may actually appear before this position: line 33, column 14
regexp='^ALL:\s+ALL'
line="ALL: ALL"
^
ansible-playbook version in my case is 1.5.3
Not sure if the above error really is an error or should be considered as a
bug.
Note: this is old code on my side and IIRC I applied this workaround since
ansible >= 1.2
HTH
Phil.
2014-03-19 15:00 GMT+01:00 Michael DeHaan <[email protected]>:
> Hi Phil,
>
> There are no such sequences in the above post. Still waiting on version
> info and output.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Philippe Eveque <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Something like this should help
>> Assuming the following variable declaration
>>
>> vars:
>> - a_column: "\x3A"
>>
>>
>> then later you can have:
>>
>> line="ALL{{ a_column }} ALL"
>>
>>
>> --
>> Phil
>>
>> 2014-03-19 1:43 GMT+01:00 Nick Doyle <[email protected]>:
>> > Hm I still get the prob ..
>> >
>> > - name: allow gateway
>> > sudo: yes
>> > lineinfile:
>> > line="ALL: 127.0.0.1"
>> > dest=/etc/hosts.allow
>> >
>> >
>> > On Saturday, 13 April 2013 03:43:03 UTC+10, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Right, hence "If there is a colon in a YAML line, it must be quoted."
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Peter Klausner <[email protected]>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> For the record, this syntax did it:
>> >>>
>> >>> lineinfile: "... line='foo: bar' ..."
>> >>>
>> >>> Note that the documentation still samples the wrong syntax:
>> >>> http://ansible.cc/docs/modules.html#lineinfile
>> >>>
>> >>> And note that recent sudo supports the /etc/sudoers.d directory,
>> >>> which obsoletes mucking with lineinfile in this case.
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