Re: [ansible-project] unable to create directory using ansible file module

2020-03-16 Thread Shifa Shaikh
@Dick your suggestion helped !! it works. On Monday, March 16, 2020 at 1:27:14 PM UTC+5:30, Dick Visser wrote: > > Ah OK yes, i see, you're right. > The issue is your quoting, as indicated by the error message. > Instead of: > >- file: path="{{ playbook_dir }}/dashboard/{{ my_result.name

Re: [ansible-project] unable to create directory using ansible file module

2020-03-16 Thread Dick Visser
Ah OK yes, i see, you're right. The issue is your quoting, as indicated by the error message. Instead of: - file: path="{{ playbook_dir }}/dashboard/{{ my_result.name }} state=directory recurse=yes" Do this: - file: path="{{ playbook_dir }}/dashboard/{{ my_result.name }}" state=directory

Re: [ansible-project] unable to create directory using ansible file module

2020-03-16 Thread Vivek Kothawale
Hi shifa, Can you please check whether dashboard dir is present on remote server? Thanks, Vivek On Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 1:11 PM Shifa Shaikh wrote: > Dick Hi, The issue is not with the loop as I can see the correct value > populated using debug. > > Aslo, the correct value shows up in the error

Re: [ansible-project] unable to create directory using ansible file module

2020-03-16 Thread Shifa Shaikh
Dick Hi, The issue is not with the loop as I can see the correct value populated using debug. Aslo, the correct value shows up in the error output from the loop ... see below: fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "file (/tmp/dashboard/APP state=directory recurse=yes) is

Re: [ansible-project] unable to create directory using ansible file module

2020-03-16 Thread Dick Visser
Hi you've missed a few basic things. The vars file contains a duplicate variable layers - that won't work. Also, you appear to want to loop over the variable layers, but you don't actually use it. Have a look at this URL, it has some nice examples of how loops work:

[ansible-project] unable to create directory using ansible file module

2020-03-16 Thread Shifa Shaikh
Here is my variable file: cat vars.yml --- layers: - name: APP layers: - name: WLS Here is my playbook cat varloop.yml --- hosts: localhost vars_files: - vars.yml tasks: - name: Create sublinks based of bad.txt files include_tasks: "{{