On 22. juli 2016 19:23, GANA SAGAR wrote:
Is lineinfile really idempotent ??
Yes and no, it depend on how you use it.
I am using it to uncomment the
logrorate option in logrotate.conf. Everytime I run the playbook. This play
is being executed every single time and add the word compress at the bottom
after every run. Am I doing something wrong ??
It is actually working as the documentation is describing.
If it can't find the regexp expression the line will be added to the
file, default is EOF since insertafter take presidence and is default
set to EOF.
Someone has created a issue about this behavior.
https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/issues/3975
- name: Enabling the logrotate option for linux servers
lineinfile: dest=/etc/logrotate.conf
backup=yes
regexp="^#compress"
line="compress"
create=yes
when: ansible_distribution == "RedHat"
If you add backrefs=yes it will work as you expect, it disables insertafter.
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Kai Stian Olstad
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