Your reply, while correct, seems designed to shut down useful feedback. Perhaps you did not mean it that way.
I noted up front that: > The "correct" path is likely to use a template of a file I'm aware that lineinfile has problems. Which is why I'm requesting feedback on how one might use it best. For a lot of use cases lineinfile, is an immediately useful expedient step, with advantages that far outweigh it's disadvantages. In the case I suggested, for example: > adding a mailrelay statement for postfix's main.cf. I have 6 different legacy versions of main.cf floating around, covering two different distributions. Doing it the correct way means: 1) Reading through each version to determine if there is something special about a given setup. 2) Researching the parts I do not fully understand 3) Determining which of the differing parts should be in the final version That work is good work, but it's a lot of work. It's not unrealistic to suggest that's a week or more of work (postfix is pretty flexible, which translates to reading though a *lot* of options). Most of those options don't really have a final "correct" setting. But I know up front what relayhost should be. -- 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/808c8385-73e4-46c0-870f-3b098c16a344%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
