Ansible cannot find files after su to root

[Charles Moga]

Hello,

I hope someone can answer this. I have a bunch of commands (shell scripts ) in a specific directory I need to run as root user. So I do:

- name: Becoming root

   command: sudo su -

- name: Changing directory

  command: cd "{{ command_directory }}"

- name: Sourcing commands 

  command: source mycommand.sh

The problem is keep getting:

fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "cmd": "cd full_path_to_my_command_directory", "failed": true, "msg": "[Errno 2] No such file or directory", "rc": 2}

If I do manually, it works fine. 

Any suggestions? I have tried become but exactly the same result. It just seems like once I change to root, cd command does not work anymore. 

Thanks and regards

Charles

[Dick Davies]

your 'cd' command runs as a separate command, that's why its' not working.

Try adding a chdir= option to your script command, see :

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/command_module.html

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[Charles Moga]

Hi Dick,

Thanks for response. I have already tried that and it was not working. I think the problem is related t the fact that I am running this playbook with connection=local. I have a feeling that even though this is locally, ansible still sees 127.0.0.1 as a separate entity on which the directory does not exist. Not sure if I am talking sense though.

Regards

Charles

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 15. sep. 2016 17:10, Charles Moga wrote:
> Hello,
> I hope someone can answer this. I have a bunch of commands (shell scripts )
> in a specific directory I need to run as root user. So I do:
>
> - name: Becoming root
> command: sudo su -
>
> - name: Changing directory
> command: cd "{{ command_directory }}"
>
> - name: Sourcing commands
> command: source mycommand.sh

You can't use Ansible like this.
This is three individual tasks, so the "sudo su -" would run but does
not have any impact on the next command.

And the cd will not change the path for the next command.

I highly recommend reading a Ansible book and/or reading this
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_intro.html
to get a basic understanding of how Ansible work.

To run tings as sudo or su you need to use become
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/become.html
Ansible can't stack sudo and su, like "sudo su -". You need to pick one
of them.

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Kai Stian Olstad

[Brian Coca]

This is how that would be sourced with su (just not sure that is useful either):

- command: source mycommand.sh chdir="{{ command_directory }}"

​  become: True

^ the issue is that 'sudo su -' is not supported, you either need full sudo or be able to run 'su'​ directly.

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Brian Coca

[Charles Moga]

Thanks for Brian,

I have tried all these suggestions but with no luck.

- name: Sourcing commands from helpers file

      command: source helpers.sh chdir="{{workspace }}"

      become: true

      become_user: <user>

TASK [Debug] *******************************************************************

ok: [127.0.0.1] => {

    "msg": "Workspace is /home/<user>/projects/<confidential>"

}

TASK [Sourcing commands for database management from helpers file] *************

fatal: [127.0.0.1]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "cmd": "source helpers.sh", "failed": true, "msg": "[Errno 2] No such file or directory", "rc": 2}

I file is definitely there and the path is right. I must be missing something fundamental, possibly simple.

Regards

Charles

[Edgars]

source is a bash function not a command. This is why it cannot find such file, because there is no such file "source". Try to use shell module instead of command.

Edgars