file module can't be opened

[Nic Flores]

Hey Folks,

I'm running into the following error. I would appreciate any feedback.

-bash-4.1$ ansible --version

ansible 1.7 (devel f8bf9cdeec) last updated 2014/06/23 20:27:32 (GMT +000)

-bash-4.1$ ansible-playbook edit_sdc_cron.yml -i sdc_hosts -u ansible --ask-pass -K

SSH password:

sudo password [defaults to SSH password]:

PLAY [editing cron] ***********************************************************

GATHERING FACTS ***************************************************************

ok: [sdc-webdev1]

TASK: [copy new backup.sdc file] **********************************************

ok: [sdc-webdev1]

TASK: [change ownership and permissions of backup.sdc] ************************

failed: [sdc-webdev1] => {"failed": true, "parsed": false}

invalid output was:

SUDO-SUCCESS-euijcvjyrhtiwrgfnxbomdglywckoyub

/usr/bin/python: can't open file '/home/ansible/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1405614771.73-68628807032256/file': [Errno 13] Permission denied

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************

           to retry, use: --limit @/home/ansible/edit_sdc_cron.retry

sdc-webdev1                : ok=2    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1

-bash-4.1$ cat edit_sdc_cron.yml

---

- name: editing cron

  hosts: sdctest

  tasks:

  - name: copy new backup.sdc file

    copy: src=backup.sdc dest=/tmp/backup.sdc

  - name: change ownership and permissions of backup.sdc

    file: path=/tmp/backup.sdc pathowner=root group=bin mode=700

    sudo: yes

[Brian Coca]

it seems like your sudo user cannot open the tmp file under teh ansible user (your remote_user)

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[Brian Coca]

hit enter too early ...

my guess is that you are setting sudo_user to non root and this user cannot read into ansible's home/tmp folder

or that you are using root over a filesystem that won't let you use root privs (i.e NFS).

One way to get around it is setting ANSIBLE_REMOTE_TMP to /var/tmp, for example.

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[Nic Flores]

Brian,

Thanks! I installed an ansible.cfg file in /etc/ansible/ and specified the remote directory to be:

remote_tmp = /tmp/.ansible/tmp

That fixed my issue.