Yes, -c local will force every host in your playbook to run locally. It's good for a simple playbook targetting localhost, but you shouldn't do it in general with playbooks targetting your whole infra.
Glad you figured it out! On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Joshua Burke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I found that the problem was my use of the "-c local" flag in my CLI > invocation of the playbook. > Additionally I upgraded from Ansible version 1.7.1 to version 1.7.2 > > Originally the command that failed was: > > * ansible-playbook -v -c local -i localhost someplaybook.yml* > > After changing the command to > * ansible-playbook -v -i localhost someplaybook.yml* > > The playbook ran as expected. > > Just wanted to post a solution for everyone, in case of future similar > problems. > > On Tuesday, November 11, 2014 2:40:59 PM UTC-5, Joshua Burke wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> While attempting to provision a Digital Ocean virtual server my playbook >> needs to create two groups: >> - sudousers >> - sshusers >> >> Creation of the virtual server is successful however creating the groups >> fails with the message: >> >>> msg: Failed to find required executable groupadd >> >> >> The OS is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, freshly provisioned. >> >> Sending the which groupadd command after SSH to the server yeilds: >> > which groupadd >> /usr/sbin/groupadd >> >> Sending the command groupadd results in a help page, so the executable is >> definitely there. >> >> Ansible versions: >> - ansible 1.7.1 >> - ansible-playbook 1.7.1 >> >> Any ideas what I may be doing wrong here? >> > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/b9f9a4d7-168c-405d-83fc-d44271c4226c%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/b9f9a4d7-168c-405d-83fc-d44271c4226c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgxyzjkinRGqsPSnV%3D0%2BND49jAaq3Bta6h84g_xgOwh%3Dug%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
