Your reply, while correct, seems designed to shut down useful feedback. Perhaps you did not mean it that way.
I noted up front that: > The "correct" path is likely to use a template of a file I'm aware that lineinfile has problems. Which is why I'm requesting feedback on how one might use it best. For a lot of use cases lineinfile, is an immediately useful expedient step, with advantages that far outweigh it's disadvantages. In the case I suggested, for example: > adding a mailrelay statement for postfix's main.cf. I have 6 different legacy versions of main.cf floating around, covering two different distributions. Doing it the correct way means: 1) Reading through each version to determine if there is something special about a given setup. 2) Researching the parts I do not fully understand 3) Determining which of the differing parts should be in the final version That work is good work, but it's a lot of work. It's not unrealistic to suggest that's a week or more of work (postfix is pretty flexible, which translates to reading though a *lot* of options). Most of those options don't really have a final "correct" setting. But I know up front what relayhost should be. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/808c8385-73e4-46c0-870f-3b098c16a344%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
