Hello Anthony, 

Greetings to you. 

Hope my email finds you well.

I am trying to connect to my linux ubuntu and centOS VM using this 
IP: 13.67.227.239 & 13.89.200.76
I have this error: (/home/ansible/tutorials/chapter1/ansible.cfg): Source 
contains parsing errors: '<string>'
        [line  2]: '13.67.227.239\n'
        [line  4]: '13.89.200.76\n'

Can you please advise. 

I would be happpy to get a response from you. 

Best regards.
Dotun.



On Tuesday, March 16, 2021 at 5:34:38 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:

> 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'
>>
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