On 20. juli 2016 18:11, Joanna Delaporte wrote:
Is this expected behaviour? I am trying to change a line in a file if it is
already present, or create the file if it isn't:
- name: set ypserver to localhost
lineinfile:
dest: /etc/yp.conf
create: yes
state: present
backup: yes
backrefs: yes
regexp: "^ypserver .*"
line: "ypserver 127.0.0.1"
notify: restart ypservices
But I keep getting this error:
TASK [nismaster : set ypserver to localhost]
***********************************
fatal: [octans]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "path
/etc/yp.conf does not exist", "path": "/etc/yp.conf", "state": "absent"}
I guess it because of backrefs=yes.
The documentation says this about backrefs,
"... and if the `regexp' doesn't match anywhere in the file, the file
will be left unchanged."
So if the file doesn't exist regexp will not match and it will not do
anything.
Since you are not using backrefs just remove the line since the default
is no.
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Kai Stian Olstad
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