On 9/15/20 2:36 PM, Sandy Toshev wrote:
>
> Thank you for the fast response,
>
> So I added the following at the end of the .yml file, but I guess I do not
> know the correct syntax, because I get an error.
> #added from suggestion
> - name: Sending an email about it
> mail:
> body: |
> Deleted some files - {% for f in files_to_delete.files %}f, {% endfor %}
> subject: Deleted files overview
> host: smtp.gmail.com
> port: 587
> username: [email protected]
> password: my_very_secure_password
> to: my_private_username@my_private_domain
>
> ===
> The error is as follows:
> ERROR! We were unable to read either as JSON nor YAML, these are the errors
> we got from each:
> JSON: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)
>
> Syntax Error while loading YAML.
> could not find expected ':'
Your indendation is wrong.
It should be like:
mail:
body: |
Deleted some files - {% for f in files_to_delete.files %}f, {% endfor %}
subject: Deleted files overview
Regards
Racke
>
> The error appears to be in '/root/ansible_playbooks/remove_distfiles.yml':
> line 21, column 7, but may
> be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.
>
> The offending line appears to be:
>
> Deleted some files - {% for f in files_to_delete.files %}f, {% endfor %}
> subject: Deleted files overview
> ^ here
>
> On Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at 3:15:02 PM UTC+3 [email protected] wrote:
>
> Use https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/mail_module.html
> and set the body argument to an inline jinja template, then iterate
> over your "files_to_delete.files" variable.
>
> - name: Sending an email
> mail:
> body: |
> Deleted some files - {% for f in files_to_delete.files %}f, {% endfor %}
> subject: Deleted files overview
>
> etc etc
>
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 13:55, Sandy Toshev <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > So I have been using the following simple playbook to keep a folder
> clean from files. Everything is working fine.
> However, I got into thinking that it will not hurt, if I get a
> notification, containing what has been deleted.
> > So my question is - may I use the variable into a body of an email? I
> have tried to view the contents of the
> registered variable, and I cannot seem to find a way.
> > How can I configure an email that will have something like "I have
> deleted the following files - file1, file2, etc.?
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> > ---
> > - hosts: lxc
> > tasks:
> > - name: Finding older than 1 week files in the distfiles folder
> > find:
> > paths: /var/cache/distfiles
> > age: 1w
> > recurse: no
> > register: files_to_delete
> >
> > - name: Removing the founded files
> > file:
> > path: "{{ item.path }}"
> > state: absent
> > with_items: "{{ files_to_delete.files }}"
> >
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