Yupper, that worked. And, I appreciate the explanation. As the Farber
College motto states, "Learning is Good".
On Thursday, May 23, 2024 at 11:30:33 AM UTC-4 Todd Lewis wrote:
> Gah! Of course. known.stdout_lines is a list, so
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> ********** Thursday 23 May 2024 11:06:33 -0400 (0:00:01.629)
> 0:00:06.011 ********** failed: [myhost] (item=['/root/.ssh/known_hosts',
> '/home/user1/.ssh/known_hosts', '/home/user2/.ssh/known_hosts',
> '/home/user3/.ssh/known_hosts', '/home/user4/.ssh/known_hosts']) =>
> changed=true ansible_loop_var: item cmd: cat /tmp/append >>
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> '/home/user2/.ssh/known_hosts', '/home/user3/.ssh/known_hosts',
> '/home/user4/.ssh/known_hosts'] delta: '0:00:00.012330' end:
> '2024-05-23 11:06:33.947617' item: - /root/.ssh/known_hosts -
> /home/user1/.ssh/known_hosts - /home/user2/.ssh/known_hosts -
> /home/user3/.ssh/known_hosts - /home/user4/.ssh/known_hosts msg:
> non-zero return code rc: 1 start: '2024-05-23 11:06:33.935287'
> stderr: '/bin/sh: line 1: [/root/.ssh/known_hosts,: No such file or
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> On Thursday, May 23, 2024 at 10:50:28 AM UTC-4 Todd Lewis wrote:
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>> You want stdout_lines rather than stdout. The former is a list with
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>> - name: Append to all known_host files
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>> On 5/23/24 9:07 AM, Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
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>> Good day, all. I hope I'm not wearing out my welcome with too many
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>> In the following playbook, I first find any know_host file for any user
>> on a particular system. I then copy a file with the list of additions to
>> add to the known_hosts files. What I want to do is use the output of my
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>> name: Debug known_hosts paths debug: msg: "{{ known.stdout
>> }}" - name: Set fact with known_hosts paths set_fact:
>> known_hosts_paths: "{{ known.stdout_lines }}" - name: Upload entries
>> for new known_hosts svn copy: src: append dest:
>> /tmp/append owner: root group: root mode:
>> u=rwx,g=rw,o=rw - name: Append to all known_host files shell: cat
>> /tmp/append >> {{ item }} loop: - '{{ known.stdout }}'*
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>> user3/.ssh/known_hosts /home/ user4/.ssh/known_hosts*
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