You did not share your playbook so giving a generic answer.
If embedded and the filesystem is read-only you may need to use raw
commands.
```
- name: "System Uptime"
raw: "/usr/bin/uptime"
```
On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 10:48 AM Tom Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, Brian. I appreciate that the error message is outdated, but I'm
> still confused about what the actual problem is in this case. When I did
> add the ansible_remote_tmp variable to the inventory, it did seem to have
> *some* of the desired effect, in that the paths reported in the error
> message seemed to reflect that path, except for the one path that appeared
> to be a relative path (don't know why).
>
> To recap: I added the var to the inventory line for that computer, and it
> had an effect but didn't solve the problem. The error reported is a 127,
> and of course error numbers need a context. If this is looked in the
> context of general linux errors, 127 would appear to indicate that the
> command isn't found. My reading of the command we were attempting to
> execute is that the only commands in that string are umask, mkdir, and
> echo, and if I ssh to the computer in question I can execute all of those
> with no problem. And yes, I am connecting as the same user that ansible is
> using. But perhaps the 127 is an ansible error and means something
> different (though my googling tends to suggest this is not the case). I'm
> sort of lost in either case.
>
> On Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 12:09:03 PM UTC-5 Brian Coca wrote:
>
>> The message is outdated, 'ansible.cfg' is not the only way to
>> configure this, your shell plugin (sh in this case) is configurable in
>> many ways, ansible.cfg is just one, you can also set a environment
>> variable or an ansible variable (this last one can go in many scopes,
>> from per run to per host and everything in between).
>>
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