win_nssm

[Manish Kumar]

Hi All,

getting below error  so you have any idea about it  ?

ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.

  mapping values are not allowed in this context

The error appears to be in '/home/manish/mk/ansible/install_exe.yml': line 6, column 13, but may

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

The offending line appears to be:

- name: Install & start application as Windows service (via nssm)

    win_nssm:

            ^ here

Playbook

---

- name: Install a service

  gather_facts: false

  hosts: all

- name: Install & start application as Windows service (via nssm)

    win_nssm:

      name: "npp.7.7.1.Installer"

      application: "{{C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads}}"

      state: restarted

Thanks,

Manish

[Dick Visser]

Curly braces put you in jinja context, and I don't think
"C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads" is a variable.
According to the docs application is "The application binary".


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[Manish Kumar]

Please share in case play book is available to install notepad++ which is already downloaded in the window server .

[MKPhil]

win_nssm is for creating windows services with nssm (the Non-Sucking Service Manager).  What you probably want is win_command (https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_command_module.html)  so something like:

---

- name: Install Notepad++

  gather_facts: false

  hosts: all

  tasks:
    - win_command: "C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\npp.7.7.1.Installer.exe"

[Manish Kumar]

getting below error :

ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.

  did not find expected hexdecimal number

The error appears to be in '/home/manish/mk/ansible/install_pkg.yml': line 6, column 25, but may

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

The offending line appears to be:

  tasks:

    - win_command: "C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\npp.7.7.1.Installer.exe"

                        ^ here

This one looks easy to fix. It seems that there is a value started

with a quote, and the YAML parser is expecting to see the line ended

with the same kind of quote. For instance:

    when: "ok" in result.stdout

Could be written as:

   when: '"ok" in result.stdout'

Or equivalently:

   when: "'ok' in result.stdout"