Hey,
Are you trying to use become method to be root or privileged user ? If file
exist on target node can u show permissions on it.
And in line regexp change to below to look for starting with line using ^
regexp = ‘^MYHOME=/opt/db/mysql/*’
Cheers,
Parth
On Sat, 15 Jan 2022 at 7:58 PM, dulhaver via Ansible Project <
ansible-project@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> I want to change replace a particular line in an exiting file (after
> having pushed a template of it to the remote)
>
> this is ant extract of the file content
>
> > cat bin/.myenv
> # Mysql Environment
> ...
> MYBASE=/opt/db/mysql/mariadb
> *MYHOME=/opt/db/mysql/mariadb-10.0.23-linux-x86_64*
> MYDATA=/opt/db/data/mysql
> MYBACK=/opt/db/backup/mysql/dumps
> ...
>
> I want to replace the line
> *MYHOME=/opt/db/mysql/mariadb-10.0.23-linux-x86_64*
>
> with this new line
> MYHOME=/opt/db/mysql/mariadb-10.5.4-linux-x86_64
>
> my TASK looks like this
>
> - name: replace mariadb version in " {{ mariadb_base }}"/bin/.myenv
> lineinfile:
> path: " {{ mariadb_base }}/bin/.myenv "
> regexp: 'MYHOME=/opt/db/mysql/*'
> line: MYHOME=/opt/db/mysql/mariadb-10.5.4-linux-x86_64
> where {{ mariadb_base }} equals /opt/db/mysql
>
> the error I am getting is:
>
> TASK [mariadb_install : replace mariadb version in "
> /opt/db/mysql"/bin/.myenv]
> *******************************************************************
> fatal: [vm-51150-0198]: FAILED! => changed=false
> msg: Destination /opt/db/mysql/bin/.myenv does not exist !
> rc: 257
>
> however checking on the target I can see that the file
> /opt/db/mysql/bin/.myenv actually does exist
>
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