There was also a bug in the early 1.6 branch (fixed in either 1.6.1 or
1.6.2) where the following resulted in an empty variable:
vars:
HOME: "{{lookup('env', 'HOME')}}"
This should be resolved in the latest stable release as well as in the
devel branch, just in case that's what you're running into.
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Tomasz Kontusz <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
>
> Marcos Cano <[email protected]> napisał:
> >when running "{{ lookup('env','HOME') }}" what does ansible exactly
> >do..
> Step by step:
> - it looks for a lookup plugin 'env'
> - calls it with your args (WARNING: it does that locally, not on the
> remote!)
> - in case of this plugin, it returns a value from named environment
> variable
>
> >i've set a few variables in different files
> >in
> >/etc/environment
> >/etc/profile
> >/root/.bashrc
> >/etc/bash.bashrc
> >
> >
> >and ansible does not recognize any of them but it does recognize PATH.
> Are you sure you've exported them? In bash you have to export variables to
> make them visible to subprocesses (with "export VAR" after setting it, or
> just "export VAR=value").
>
> >
> >any suggestion?
>
> Try to run ansible-playbook like:
> SOMEVAR=value ansible-playbook ...
> Then you can be sure that SOMEVAR is set.
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