Thanks very much Mr Olstad :)

On Saturday, 23 July 2016 10:03:35 UTC-4, Kai Stian Olstad wrote:
>
> 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. 
>
> -- 
> Kai Stian Olstad 
>

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