Also please be sure you're aware lookup plugins execute on the ansible
control machine, not the remotes.
(For those environment variables, there are facts available)
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 2:52 PM, James Cammarata <jcammar...@ansible.com>
wrote:
> There was also a bug in the early 1.6 branch (fixed in either 1.6.1 or
> 1.6.2) where the following resulted in an empty variable:
>
> vars:
> HOME: "{{lookup('env', 'HOME')}}"
>
> This should be resolved in the latest stable release as well as in the
> devel branch, just in case that's what you're running into.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Tomasz Kontusz <tomasz.kont...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Marcos Cano <mc...@stsa.info> napisał:
>> >when running "{{ lookup('env','HOME') }}" what does ansible exactly
>> >do..
>> Step by step:
>> - it looks for a lookup plugin 'env'
>> - calls it with your args (WARNING: it does that locally, not on the
>> remote!)
>> - in case of this plugin, it returns a value from named environment
>> variable
>>
>> >i've set a few variables in different files
>> >in
>> >/etc/environment
>> >/etc/profile
>> >/root/.bashrc
>> >/etc/bash.bashrc
>> >
>> >
>> >and ansible does not recognize any of them but it does recognize PATH.
>> Are you sure you've exported them? In bash you have to export variables
>> to make them visible to subprocesses (with "export VAR" after setting it,
>> or just "export VAR=value").
>>
>> >
>> >any suggestion?
>>
>> Try to run ansible-playbook like:
>> SOMEVAR=value ansible-playbook ...
>> Then you can be sure that SOMEVAR is set.
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