debugging tip(s) requested (for lineinfile)

[Gallagher Polyn]

Hi,

I'm attempting to boot and deploy with GCE all in one play (using Sharif Salah's deck and demo repo as my basis.)

I'm succeeding until...

- name: insert iptables rule

  lineinfile: dest=/etc/sysconfig/iptables state=present regexp="{{ mysql_port }}"

              insertafter="^:OUTPUT " line="-A INPUT -p tcp  --dport {{ mysql_port }} -j  ACCEPT"

  notify: restart iptables

...gives me this:

failed: [node1] => {"failed": true, "item": "", "rc": 257}

msg: Destination /etc/sysconfig/iptables does not exist ! 

When I log into the instance, /etc/sysconfig/iptables is present.

I suspect there is something amiss in how I am executing the play, but I don't know what.

What is a good debugging approach, here? (I'm thinking some ad hoc command experiments with the stat module could help, but I'm not succeeding with those.)

Thanks,

G

[Michael DeHaan]

You can check out ansible on the remote host and use "./hacking/test-module" to run the module locally, and add some debug.  

This may be effective in learning more.

I would of course check to make sure some gremlins weren't installing iptables later just before you logged in :)

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