Re: [ansible-project] Running a script from cron -> nothing; running same script from command line => SUCCESS ??? [SOLVED]

2023-08-31 Thread mu...@parsetree.com
Ah-ha Found it: I had to modify the script, and turn the z4=`ansible ... 2>&1 | ...` into: /usr/local/bin/ansible mainmachine -m shell -a "psql " | grep '^ [0-9]' > /tmp/z4a z4=`cat /tmp/z4a` So, much to my surprise and dismay, the application of 2>&1 to ansible inside backticks is hi

Re: [ansible-project] Running a script from cron -> nothing; running same script from command line => SUCCESS ???

2023-08-31 Thread mu...@parsetree.com
See below for inline answers: On Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 1:47:47 PM UTC-6 Will McDonald wrote: OK, that's some useful extra info. I've just had a very quick basic play (I haven't touched cron in earnest for a long time). Have you tried echo-ing $z4 and appended to a tmp file to see if the

Re: [ansible-project] Running a script from cron -> nothing; running same script from command line => SUCCESS ???

2023-08-31 Thread Will McDonald
OK, that's some useful extra info. I've just had a very quick basic play (I haven't touched cron in earnest for a long time). Have you tried echo-ing $z4 and appended to a tmp file to see if there's anything in it at run time? I've tried a few variations in a standard user's crontab: root@DESKTO

Re: [ansible-project] Using custom tests from custom filters

2023-08-31 Thread Todd Lewis
Maybe my question wasn't clear. I have a project level */custom test/* that lives in ./test_plugins/tablinx.py relative to the root of our project. The test itself is called mw_tab_sch_distinct, and it returns True if two compared dicts describe functionally different "schedules" (as per Tablea

Re: [ansible-project] Running a script from cron -> nothing; running same script from command line => SUCCESS ???

2023-08-31 Thread mu...@parsetree.com
See below. On Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 8:59:57 AM UTC-6 Will McDonald wrote: This isn't really an Ansible problem per se unless it's *only* ansible in a subshell that doesn't run from cron? Have you tested basic cron functionality using something simple like this (or something even more ba

Re: [ansible-project] Running a script from cron -> nothing; running same script from command line => SUCCESS ???

2023-08-31 Thread Will McDonald
This isn't really an Ansible problem per se unless it's *only* ansible in a subshell that doesn't run from cron? Have you tested basic cron functionality using something simple like this (or something even more basic): #!/bin/sh z4=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M` touch /tmp/${z4} And then check to see if that

[ansible-project] Re: ansible-galaxy errors

2023-08-31 Thread Andrew Meyer
Disregard, deleted all roles and re-downloaded them. On Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 4:27:22 PM UTC-5 Andrew Meyer wrote: > The other day I suffered a power outage and got everything back online but > now when I run ansible-galaxy it errors out no matter what I do. Has anyone > else run into t

[ansible-project] Running a script from cron -> nothing; running same script from command line => SUCCESS ???

2023-08-31 Thread Steve Murphy
As the subject line says, I can't get this script to run correctly from cron.  My cron entry (in a file in /etc/cron.d): == # Run the 30-minly job SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin/:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root MAILTO=ROOT */30 * * * * root /root/getlist