Please help with YAML stat/fail syntax

[s.lu...@wsmintl.com]

Hello All,

Could you please explain why do I have error here?

---

- hosts: all

  tasks:

  - name: copy the script

    copy: src=/etc/ansible/sample.pl dest=/root/sample.pl mode=0700

    stat: path=/root/sample.pl

      register: st

    fail: msg="The script file wasn't copied to server {{ansible_hostname}} {{ansible_default_ipv4.address}}."

      when: st.stat.exists != True

The error is

[root@server-03 ~]# ansible-playbook /etc/ansible/sample.yml --syntax-check

ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.

The error appears to have been in '/etc/ansible/sample.yml': line 9, column 15, but may

be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.

The offending line appears to be:

    stat: path=/root/sample.pl

      register: st

              ^ here

I tried 

- stat: ...

and 

- register: ...

but this didn't help.

Thank you very much in advance.

[Brian Coca]

several errors, each task needs a -, register and when are task
directives and not part of the modules so need to be at the same
level:

- hosts: all
tasks:

- name: copy the script
copy: src=/etc/ansible/sample.pl dest=/root/sample.pl mode=0700

- stat: path=/root/sample.pl
register: st
name: checking that file is there, which is redundant if copy succeeded

- fail: msg="The script file wasn't copied to server

{{ansible_hostname}} {{ansible_default_ipv4.address}}."
when: st.stat.exists != True

name: again redundant as copy will show an error already for that
host if the script fails to be copied



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Brian Coca

[s.lu...@wsmintl.com]

Thank you, it works.

I realize the checks look redundant, it was just attempt to study how it can be used.