if the configuration file is local to the 'master', you can use a lookup:
lookup('pipe', 'cat /file/with/url')
if it is remote, backtick to do same
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Emil Kacperski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not quite. basically right now I have 10 individual servers where I run a
> script to bring up a chromium browser output is hdmi. Basically
> I have a videowall with monitors. Each server has the script and a local
> screen.conf file which contains the url string.
>
> But instead of logging into each server to change the url or restart the
> script I want to do this with ansible.
>
> The script and everything is running just fine using the script. Except of
> course I want a screen.conf to reside on the ansible server
> and not on the remote server. So that when I run the restart script the url
> is passed into the script and everything is controlled from
> the ansible server logging into the remote servers.
>
> Basically I am not sure how to pass on the url to the remote server script.
>
> The example I gave is very basic, just assume that the echo.sh is located on
> the remote server and the url file is located on the ansible
> server. Let's assume screen.conf, so when I run the echo.sh using the shell
> module I need it to grab the url from the screen.conf
> and then pass it to the echo.sh script where it's referenced as $url.
>
> Does this make sense?
>
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