NOOB needs help with small ansible script.

[Raymond Nonya]

I am two days now into ansible and I love everything it can do. My problem is that ansible does not like my yaml :-). My below playbook keeps throwing errors when I run a --check on it. Basically I want the update rpm pulled down and put in /tmp. Then I want to check if a user account exists. If not I want it to stop and inform me that the user doesn't exist. I looked at the fail instructions and I followed it but I guess I am missing something. Thank you in advanced for your help. 

error

The offending line appears to be:

- fail:

msg: "User Splunk does not exist, stopping install"

^ here

playbook

- name: install splunk forwarder Binaries

  hosts: all

  gather_facts: True

  tasks:

     - name: download splunk forwarder RPM

       get_url:

       url: http://server/RPM/update-6.5.3-36937ad027d4-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm

       dest: /tmp/update-6.5.3-36937ad027d4-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm

       mode: 777

       action: shell /usr/bin/getent passwd nix| /usr/bin/wc -l | tr -d ''

       register: user_exist

#       when: user_exist.stdout == 0

- fail:

msg: "User nix does not exist, stopping install"

when: user_exist.stdout == 0

[Paul Markham]

Try indenting the msg line. YAML is very fussy about spacing and indentation.

[Raymond Nonya]

Still having issues. I completely started over and no luck. Ansible still complains, it is complaining about action and every time I change something it complains about another stanza. 

Here is the error

ansible-playbook TEST -i hosts -C

ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.

The error appears to have been in '/root/SPLUNK/TEST': line 5, column 10, but may

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

The offending line appears to be:

- name: Installs splunk

   action: shell wget -O /tmp/splunk.rpm http://example.com/file

         ^ here

Here is my YAML playbook

---

- hosts: all

  tasks:

- name: Installs splunk

   action: shell wget -O /tmp/splunk.rpm http://example.com/file

- name: change file ownership

  file: path=/tmp/splunk.rpm

   owner=root

   mode=0700

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 26. april 2017 21:55, Raymond Nonya wrote:
> Still having issues. I completely started over and no luck. Ansible still
> complains, it is complaining about action and every time I change something
> it complains about another stanza.
> Here is the error
> ansible-playbook TEST -i hosts -C
> ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML.

You have problem with indentation, I do recommend reading the docs,
start with this one,
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/YAMLSyntax.html

And then read this one,
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_intro.html

Do look at the indentation that is 2 spaces in the examples.
In YAML, indentation is is essential.

--
Kai Stian Olstad

[Paul Markham]

Your indentation is still all over the place. Try: