Can you please check and see if you have a problem on Ansible 1.7.2?
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On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Sean McGowan <spmcgo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Background: I am using Ansible 1.5 on RedHat. Apparently
> system-config-network creates a hard link to /etc/hosts and
> /etc/resolve.conf. I want to be able to copy the correct hosts file in
> place if is not there, whether or not the file links is > 1.
>
> What happens: If the source file is already the same as the destination,
> I get FAILED with a message "absolute paths are required".
>
> I can find this message in the code of the file module, not the copy
> module. Also, if the source file is different, the copy works fine. I am
> assuming that it gets to the file module somehow after the atomic copy call
> in the copy module.
>
> Anyhow, can someone please tell me if this should be expected and/or if
> there is a good work around?
>
> Below is an example... Thanks in advance!
>
> ### /etc/hosts has > 1 links
> [root@padishah1 ansible]# ls -l /etc/hosts
> -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 13888 May 16 17:21 /etc/hosts
> [root@padishah1 ansible]# find /etc -xdev -samefile /etc/hosts
> /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts
> /etc/hosts
>
> ### hosts.bkp = hosts && hosts.different != hosts
> [root@padishah1 ansible]# md5sum /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.{bkp,different}
> 0f7cc9afcb0f17a9864b45391027a6ad /etc/hosts
> 0f7cc9afcb0f17a9864b45391027a6ad /etc/hosts.bkp
> 9c5799def96f6f2e7309a3914075589b /etc/hosts.different
>
> ### Trying to use the copy module with an identical file fails
> [root@padishah1 ansible]# ansible all -i <(echo -e "localhost
> ansible_connection=local") -m copy -a "src=/etc/hosts.bkp dest=/etc/hosts
> mode=0644 owner=root group=root" --check
> localhost | FAILED >> {
> "failed": true,
> "md5sum": "0f7cc9afcb0f17a9864b45391027a6ad",
> "msg": "absolute paths are required"
> }
>
> ### Trying to copy with a new file is sucessful
> [root@padishah1 ansible]# ansible all -i <(echo -e "localhost
> ansible_connection=local") -m copy -a "src=/etc/hosts.different
> dest=/etc/hosts mode=0644 owner=root group=root" --check
> --- before: /etc/hosts
> +++ after: /etc/hosts.different
> ---diff redacted---
> +
> localhost | success >> {
> "changed": true
> }
>
> ### This is not the case when links = 1
> [root@padishah1 ansible]# cp -p --remove-destination /etc/hosts.bkp
> /etc/hosts
> cp: overwrite `/etc/hosts'? yes
> [root@padishah1 ansible]# ls -l /etc/hosts
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 13888 May 16 17:21 /etc/hosts
>
> ### Identical file is now successful (changed: false is expected)
> [root@padishah1 ansible]# ansible all -i <(echo -e "localhost
> ansible_connection=local") -m copy -a "src=/etc/hosts.bkp dest=/etc/hosts
> mode=0644 owner=root group=root" --check
>
> localhost | success >> {
> "changed": false,
> "dest": "/etc/hosts",
> "gid": 0,
> "group": "root",
> "md5sum": "0f7cc9afcb0f17a9864b45391027a6ad",
> "mode": "0644",
> "owner": "root",
> "path": "/etc/hosts",
> "secontext": "unconfined_u:object_r:etc_t:s0",
> "size": 13888,
> "state": "file",
> "uid": 0
> }
>
> [root@padishah1 ansible]# ansible all -i <(echo -e "localhost
> ansible_connection=local") -m copy -a "src=/etc/hosts.different
> dest=/etc/hosts mode=0644 owner=root group=root" --check
> --- before: /etc/hosts
> +++ after: /etc/hosts.different
> ---diff redacted---
> +
>
> localhost | success >> {
> "changed": true
> }
>
>
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