I just noticed, if you break the when into two clauses, instead of doing
"not (...)" you can do this:
- name: ods
shell: "/something {{state}}"
when:
- ods
- ansible_hostname is not search("demlh*")
register: sss_ods_out
notify: output ods
ignore_errors: yes
On Sunday, May 27, 2018 at 12:00:17 PM UTC-5, Dan Linder wrote:
>
> The "when" stanza performs a AND when there are multiple when conditions (
> http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_conditionals.html#the-when-statement
> ).
>
> Whenever I encounter a problem with 'when' I try to break it up to
> multiple lines so the numerous parenthesis aren't causing confusion:
>
> - name: ods
> shell: "/something {{state}}"
> when:
>
> - ods
>
> - not (ansible_hostname | search("demlh*"))
> register: sss_ods_out
> notify: output ods
> ignore_errors: yes
>
> With that you might be able to deduce why the "AND" clause isn't working
> as expected.
>
> It might also be that the "ansible_hostname | search(...)" might need to
> change to "ansible_hostname is search(...)" (change | to is).
>
> If not, can you provide what "ods" contains? A simple "debug:" before
> that call should suffice.
>
> On Sunday, May 27, 2018 at 10:51:15 AM UTC-5, Pranay Nanda wrote:
>>
>> I want to run few tasks in shell if they satisfy a condition. Strangely
>> the task runs if the second condition is satisfied even though the first
>> one fails.
>>
>> name: ods
>> shell: "/something {{state}}"
>> when: ((ods) and (not (ansible_hostname | search("demlh*"))))
>> register: sss_ods_out
>> notify: output ods
>> ignore_errors: yes
>>
>> Here sss_ods is a variable defined in a vars file. If I remove the latter
>> condition the task would run but I want both the conditions to be satisfied
>> for the task to run and I can't understand where am I going wrong.
>>
>
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