Hi Guys sorry new to this and thanks to Antony Stone - sorry if im being dents but im determined to learn this and glad i found such a great group
so actually i did have the lines and took them out - now i am getting the following [WARNING]: * Failed to parse /etc/ansible/hosts with yaml plugin: YAML inventory has invalid structure, it should be a dictionary, got: <class 'ansible.parsing.yaml.objects.AnsibleUnicode'> [WARNING]: * Failed to parse /etc/ansible/hosts with ini plugin: /etc/ansible/hosts:1: Expected key=value host variable assignment, got: ubuntu2004 [WARNING]: Unable to parse /etc/ansible/hosts as an inventory source [WARNING]: No inventory was parsed, only implicit localhost is available [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match 'all' [WARNING]: Could not match supplied host pattern, ignoring: ubuntu2004* Basically all i am trying to do is the following - im going through th basics [root@sc-centos-1-2-1-build-1 ansible]# ansible ubuntu2004* -m file -a "path=/home/user1/file2.txt state=touch mode=700" On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 19:53, Mohamed Rahiman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Error reading config file (/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg): Source contains > parsing errors: '<string>' [line 4]: ' 3 \n' #601 > > Hi Guys > > I am learning Ansible as a newbie so that i can get into the industry of > IT, I am learning everything from scratch > I have two hosts - hosts 1 and 2 > i am trying to create a file from host 1 to host 2 - using ansible when i > do this i get the following > > Error reading config file (/etc/ansible/ansible.cfg): Source contains > parsing errors: '' > [line 4]: ' 3 \n' > [line 5]: ' 4 # nearly all parameters can be overridden in > ansible-playbook\n' > [line 6]: ' 5 # or with command line flags. ansible will read > ANSIBLE_CONFIG,\n' > [line 7]: ' 6 # ansible.cfg in the current working directory, .ansible.cfg > in\n' > [line 8]: ' 7 # the home directory or /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg, whichever > it\n' > [line 9]: ' 8 # finds first\n' > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/6399a87a-5473-4acc-a974-c339eb458e0fn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/6399a87a-5473-4acc-a974-c339eb458e0fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAMWqvZEYkoDsc4AEw9HRkVfu8TW4cB5fjk3%3DUTEHiMaVB1uyNg%40mail.gmail.com.
