ansible output not shown

[High Raccoon]

an extremely simple playbook:

```

---
- hosts:
   - test-host
 tasks:
   - name: AAA
      ansible.builtin.debug:

       msg: AAA

```

shows results like this:

```

[WARNING]: Invalid characters were found in group names but not replaced, use -vvvv to see details

PLAY [test-host] **********************************************************************************************************************************************************

PLAY RECAP ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************
test-host                   : ok=2    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=0    rescued=0    ignored=0   

```

so the debug task is either ignored, or had its output suppressed. please, help me make sense of ansible's behavior and try to figure out which settings could have influenced it.

[Dick Visser]

Group names can't include dashes ('-')

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[High Raccoon]

it's a host, not a group.

воскресенье, 19 июня 2022 г. в 02:49:01 UTC+5, dnmv...@gmail.com:

[High Raccoon]

also, the hostname is altered.

воскресенье, 19 июня 2022 г. в 17:07:49 UTC+5, High Raccoon:

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 19/06/2022 14:08, High Raccoon wrote:
> also, the hostname is altered.
>

Try

hosts: "test1-host:test2-host"

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Racke

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[Todd Lewis]

What's the output of

   ansible-config dump | grep -v default

[High Raccoon]

$ ansible-config dump | grep -v default

ANSIBLE_PIPELINING(/home/szelga/automation/ansible.cfg) = True
DEFAULT_HOST_LIST(/home/szelga/automation/ansible.cfg) = ['/home/szelga/automation/inventory_netbox.yml', '/home/szelga/automation/inventory_static.yml'
, '/home/szelga/automation/inventory_test.yml']
DEFAULT_REMOTE_USER(/home/szelga/automation/ansible.cfg) = root
DEFAULT_STDOUT_CALLBACK(/home/szelga/automation/ansible.cfg) = actionable
DEFAULT_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE(/home/szelga/automation/ansible.cfg) = /home/szelga/automation/password.txt
HOST_KEY_CHECKING(/home/szelga/automation/ansible.cfg) = False

воскресенье, 19 июня 2022 г. в 21:35:11 UTC+5, uto...@gmail.com:

[High Raccoon]

DEFAULT_STDOUT_CALLBACK was the reason, I've set it up a while ago to suppress the excrutiating amount of output and then forgot about it. thank you very much for your help.

воскресенье, 19 июня 2022 г. в 21:35:11 UTC+5, uto...@gmail.com:

What's the output of

[Brian Coca]

@High Racoon

The message is a bit misleading, it is not matching a host so it tries
to match a group (since hosts: allows for host patterns which can
include both), but then it sees the '-' and gives you the message
about invalid groups.

Note for @Todd Lewis

|ansible-config dump | grep -v default

no need for that, why you have --only-changed

ansible-config dump --only-changed



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[Todd Lewis]

Thanks, Brian.

You've touched my love-hate-relationship-with-ansible nerve. It's an anti-feature that

   ansible-config --help dump

produces output different from

   ansible-config dump --help

the latter being the only way to discover "--only-changed".

And whether `man ansible-config` works depends on pip vs. system packaging.

Still, good to know about "--only-changed".

[Brian Coca]

I need to figure out how to use the argparser library to make those
more congruent.


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