You need to quote the whole line, not just the templated part:
---
- hosts: service
vars:
app_service_port: 8080
tomcat_home: /opt/apache-tomcat-8.0.9
remote_user: deploy
tasks:
- name: stop tomcat
shell: "{{ tomcat_home }}/bin/shutdown.sh"
- name: start tomcat
shell: "{{ tomcat_home }}/bin/startup.sh"
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Subramanian Olagappan
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> ---
> - hosts: service
> vars:
> app_service_port: 8080
> tomcat_home: /opt/apache-tomcat-8.0.9
> remote_user: deploy
> tasks:
> - name: stop tomcat
> shell: "{{ tomcat_home }}"/bin/shutdown.sh
> - name: start tomcat
> shell: "{{ tomcat_home }}"/bin/startup.sh
>
> olga@olga-vbox:~$ ansible-playbook test.yml
> ERROR: Syntax Error while loading YAML script, test.yml
> Note: The error may actually appear before this position: line 7, column 31
> - name: stop tomcat
> shell: "{{ tomcat_home }}"/bin/shutdown.sh
> ^
> We could be wrong, but this one looks like it might be an issue with
> missing quotes. Always quote template expression brackets when they
> start a value. For instance:
> with_items:
> - {{ foo }}
> Should be written as:
> with_items:
> - "{{ foo }}"
>
> Thanks,
> Olga
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:20 AM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> "Quoting also did not work. I added "sh" before the {{ and it worked."
>>
>> Please show me what you tried and what the output was?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 5:24 AM, olga <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Michael,
>>>
>>> Quoting also did not work. I added "sh" before the {{ and it worked.
>>>
>>> tasks:
>>> - name: stop tomcat
>>> shell: sh {{ tomcat_home }}/bin/shutdown.sh
>>> - name: start tomcat
>>> shell: sh {{ tomcat_home }}/bin/startup.sh
>>>
>>> Thanks for the link.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Olga
>>>
>>> On Thursday, October 9, 2014 1:33:15 AM UTC+5:30, Michael Peters wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Try quoting the templated part. The {{ }} syntax markers mess up the
>>>> yaml parsing - http://docs.ansible.com/YAMLSyntax.html#gotchas
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 3:41 PM, olga <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> > Hi,
>>>> >
>>>> > ---
>>>> > - hosts: service
>>>> > vars:
>>>> > app_service_port: 8080
>>>> > tomcat_home: /opt/apache-tomcat-8.0.9
>>>> > remote_user: deploy
>>>> > tasks:
>>>> > - name: stop tomcat
>>>> > shell: {{ tomcat_home }}/bin/shutdown.sh
>>>> > - name: start tomcat
>>>> > shell: {{ tomcat_home }}/bin/startup.sh
>>>> >
>>>> > When i run this play, i get
>>>> >
>>>> > ERROR: Syntax Error while loading YAML script, test.yml
>>>> > Note: The error may actually appear before this position: line 8,
>>>> > column 28
>>>> >
>>>> > tasks:
>>>> > - shell: {{ tomcat_home}}/bin/shutdown.sh
>>>> >
>>>> > is variable substitution not allowed in shell module.
>>>> >
>>>> > These are custom installed tomcat dir, so i have to use shell command
>>>> > to
>>>> > start and stop the tomcat. Also, has anyone verified if the java
>>>> > process got
>>>> > killed. I have seen some times that after shutdown, the java process
>>>> > still
>>>> > run. OR is there any easy method in ansible to do this.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks,
>>>> > olaga
>>>> >
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