Re: [ansible-project] replace a line in a file with lineinfile

2022-01-15 Thread dulhaver via Ansible Project
On 15.01.22 17:55, Dick Visser wrote: Hi On Sat, 15 Jan 2022 at 15:28, dulhaver via Ansible Project wrote: I want to change replace a particular line in an exiting file (after having pushed a template of it to the remote) If you are already using a template, why not just that ins

Re: [ansible-project] replace a line in a file with lineinfile

2022-01-15 Thread Dick Visser
Hii On Sat, 15 Jan 2022 at 15:28, 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) > It you are already using a template, why not just that instead of lin

Re: [ansible-project] replace a line in a file with lineinfile

2022-01-15 Thread Parth Patel
I doubt without using ^ it wont be able to find line starting with MYHOME. On Sat, 15 Jan 2022 at 8:29 PM, dulhaver via Ansible Project < ansible-project@googlegroups.com> wrote: > hm. adding a become: yes makes the TASK go through, so the hint was good, > thx. > > However the line is not bei

Re: [ansible-project] replace a line in a file with lineinfile

2022-01-15 Thread dulhaver via Ansible Project
hm. adding a become: yes makes the TASK go through, so the hint was good, thx. However the line is not being replaced. can it be the regexp: 'MYHOME=/opt/db/mysql/mariadb-10.0.23-linux-x86_64' does not identify the line to be changed correctly? that would explain that behavior somewhat. If so .

Re: [ansible-project] replace a line in a file with lineinfile

2022-01-15 Thread Parth Patel
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, dulhave

[ansible-project] replace a line in a file with lineinfile

2022-01-15 Thread dulhaver via Ansible Project
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/m