Duh on me. Thanks!

Chris

On Tuesday, June 22, 2021 at 2:58:34 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote:

> You have a typo, it's 'state' not 'status'. The default value is 'state: 
> file' and due to historical behaviour 'state: file' will not create the 
> file.
>
> On Tuesday, June 22, 2021 at 11:35:04 AM UTC+10 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Ansible 2.11.0
>>
>> I created an I: disk partition on my Windows 2019 host under jenkins 
>> user, who is an admin. Logged in as jenkins, I can create a directory on 
>> the partition through the GUI.
>>
>> Now I have this Ansible task that simply tries to create the same 
>> directory structure, like this
>>
>>   - name: "Create data directory {{ pg_data_dir }}"
>>     win_file:
>>       path: "{{ pg_data_dir }}" # I:\pgdata\13
>>       status: directory
>>
>> I get ...
>>
>> TASK [postgresql : Create data directory I:\pgdata\13] 
>> ********************************
>> task path: 
>> /path/ansible/exa-playbooks/roles/postgresql/tasks/install_postgresql.yml:21
>> redirecting (type: modules) ansible.builtin.win_file to 
>> ansible.windows.win_file
>> Using module file 
>> /usr/local/Cellar/ansible/3.3.0/libexec/lib/python3.9/site-packages/ansible_collections/ansible/windows/plugins/modules/win_file.ps1
>> Pipelining is enabled.
>> <10.227.xx.xx> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: jenkins on PORT 5986 
>> TO 10.227.xx.xx
>> EXEC (via pipeline wrapper)
>> fatal: [10.227.xx.xx]: FAILED! => {
>>     "changed": false,
>>     "msg": "path I:\\pgdata\\13 will not be created"
>> }
>>
>> Any clues?
>>
>>

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