The error can't be any clearer. The symlink you're trying to create already exists as a directory
Sent from Gmail Mobile On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 at 20:25, lift...@gmail.com <lifte...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know this should be trivial, but I just cannot get it to work. I'm > trying to create a symbolic link in my playbook. I'm trying to link > /etc/guacamole/guacamole.properties in the /usr/share/tomcat/.guacamole > directory as follows: > > - name: Config | Creating Tomcat symlink For guacamole.properties > ansible.builtin.file: > src: /etc/guacamole/guacamole.properties > dest: "{{ '/usr/share/' + guacamole_tomcat + '/.guacamole' }}" > state: link > owner: "{{ guacamole_tomcat_user }}" > group: "{{ guacamole_tomcat_user }}" > mode: 0664 > notify: > - "Restart {{ guacamole_tomcat_service }}" > - Kill guacd > - Restart guacd > > But my playbook keeps giving me this error: > > refusing to convert from directory to symlink for > /usr/share/tomcat/.guacamole > > Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? > > Thanks, > Harry > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/974e3258-2936-4379-81d9-352293f9cba7n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/974e3258-2936-4379-81d9-352293f9cba7n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAF8BbLY%3DAqF-DRdsbsr0PWVchHQWUkeX5g3EOWQsdHF-SYg%3D3Q%40mail.gmail.com.