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Ansible shell command `pod2man` not found

I'm trying to install pacaur using a script via Ansible:

curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Tadly/0e65d30f279a34c33e9b/raw/pacaur_install.sh | bash

With the ansible command

ansible 192.168.1.2 -m shell -a "curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Tadly/0e65d30f279a34c33e9b/raw/pacaur_install.sh | bash"

But I get pacman complaining about pod2man missing. It seems to be a problem with the PATH of ansible command.

Running the command on the machine directly using ssh works correctly.

Here's the output of: ansible -m all shell -a 'echo $PATH'

localhost | SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl

192.168.1.2| SUCCESS | rc=0 >>
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
Solution

  • As reported in comments, the problem is that when switching users sudo sanitizes PATH (see this ServerFault question for details).

    The ad-hoc command to export the local PATH to hosts that I propose seems a bit hacky but it works (it uses the --extra-vars option of ansible command together with Jinja's variable injection)

    ansible all -m shell -a "export PATH={{path}}; curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Tadly/0e65d30f279a34c33e9b/raw/pacaur_install.sh | bash" -e path=$PATH

    You could also use the {{ lookup('env', 'PATH') }} to forward the PATH.