{{dest_file}} only shows output of one host instead of 2 as I was expecting

[johnc]

hi guys, the below playbook seems to work ok except when the ouput gets written to the local file, it only shows the output of one host instead of 2 that I was expecting.

What needs to change so that I can have the output for both hosts in perf.

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- name: Get various nginx configuration information
  hosts: perf
  become: yes
  become_user: nginx
  vars:
    dest_file: /root/johnc/nginx-servers/yamloutputfile.txt

  tasks:
  - name: Get nginx config information
    shell: |
       hostname
       cat /etc/logrotate.d/nginx
       cat /etc/logrotate.conf
       ls -al /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
       cat /var/lib/logrotate/logrotate.status
    register: output


  - name: Save the output to a local file
    become: yes
    become_user: root
    local_action: copy content="{{ output.stdout_lines|join('\n') }}" dest="{{ dest_file }}"

[Matt Martz]

You are effectively overwriting the file with the contents of each host, onto localhost.

Ultimately you will need differently named files, or do something more complex using a template and `run_once: true` and inside the template looping all hosts, getting their `output`, and putting it in the file.

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