file module: absent recurse=yes and Directory not empty

[Maxim Odinintsev]

Hello,

When I'm run this job, but on some hosts return output:
rmtree failed: [Errno 39] Directory not empty: '/home/master/www/static.master/images/posters'

Sure this directories is not empty, and I'm want remove it recursive. But why i can't do this with file module ?

- name: Cleaner
  hosts: all
  sudo: yes

  tasks:
    - name: get cache dirs
      shell: ls -1 /var/lib/nginx/cache/
      register: cache

    - name: Remove cache
      file: name=/var/lib/nginx/cache/{{ item }} state=absent recurse=yes
      with_items: cache.stdout_lines

    - name: get static dirs
      shell: ls -1 /home/master/www/static.master/
      register: static

    - name: Clean static
      file: name=/home/master/www/static.master/{{ item }} state=absent recurse=yes
      with_items: static.stdout_lines

Thank you

[Michael DeHaan]

Sounds like a good feature request or pull request addition -- can you file a ticket on github.com/ansible/ansible ?

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[Matt Martz]

I will mention that we use 'file' to recursively delete a directory, but it does require 'force=yes'

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[Michael DeHaan]

Perhaps the force is causing extra checking?

If so, maybe it can be removed.

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[santosh verma]

Still same error:

msg: rmtree failed: [Errno 39] Directory not empty

        - name: Removing jenkins folder

          file: path={{ base_dir }}/tomcat7/webapps/jenkins state=absent force=yes

[Diego Villacis]

Getting the same error, does anyone know if there is any update on this?