empty ansible.cfg in current directory changes the action of ansible-playbook ?

[Oliver markey]

I create a simple playbook to restart rsyslog using service module.

---

- hosts: remote

  remote_user: root

  gather_facts: true

  tasks:

    - name: restart rsyslog

      service: name=rsyslog state=restarted

      sudo: yes

      sudo_user:root

After I touched an empty ansible.cfg in current directory,

I executed  ansible-playbook rsyslog.yml --ask-become-pass  and it returned a failed message

failed: [127.0.0.1] => {"failed": true}

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

But when I remove ansible.cfg ,  rsyslog was restarted normally.

If I changed rsyslog to nginx or mysql , thare was no such problem.

Anyone got a clue ??

[Serge van Ginderachter]

Ansible needs a well configured ansible.cfg to work reliably. I don't think it will fallback on defaults for everything it needs.

At least the inventory needs to be set properly.

If  there is one in the current directory, it will use that, so if you make that empty, it will just miss a lot of settings it needs.

What is your point by creating an empty ansible.cfg?

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[Oliver markey]

Thanks, You are right.  At first, I just created a ansible.cfg in my work dir to add some custom configuration in.

When I found this problem, I thouth it would be someting wrong in my ansible.cfg. So I tested it  by commented  lines one by one.

After all lines are commnted,  the problem was still there with an empty ansible.cfg file :)

在 2015年7月13日星期一 UTC+8下午10:34:25，Serge van Ginderachter写道：