Hi I am struggling to understand why this code is saying that the directory does not exist
on the system I see
root@Production:~# ls -l /home/azureuser/directory-with-stuff/
and can see that the path exists
however, in my ansible code, the stat tells me that the directory does not exist the code is as follows
Project_add\roles\common\tasks
main.yml
Developer_project_setup.yml
vars
main.yml
in the Developer_project_setup.yml which runs via an include in the main.yml
- name: Running make libs to build libraries
command: make libs
args:
chdir: "{ file_path_home }"
when: infra_problem_dir_check.stat.exists
- name: Running make clean for static tarballls
command: make clean all
args:
chdir: "{ file_path_home }"
when: infra_problem_dir_check.stat.exists
within the vars.yml file
file_path_home: /home/azureuser/directory-with-stuff
I have also included a stat to check but this also returns false to my astonishment
- stat:
path: "{ file_path_home }"
register: infra_problem_dir_check
I have also used the following to try and debug and the results are interesting in the sense that i can see the folder
- name: checking working directory
command: pwd
register: test
- debug: msg={{ test.stdout }}
- name: checking working directory contents
command: ls -l
register: test
- debug: msg={{ test.stdout }}
so when I run the playbook I get
TASK [Project_add/roles/common : stat] **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [client_Host_9d63] => {"changed": false, "stat": {"exists": false}}
TASK [Project_add/roles/common : checking working directory contents] *******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
changed: [client_Host_9d63] => {"changed": true, "cmd": ["ls", "-l"], "delta": "0:00:00.003163", "end": "2020-03-11 23:00:50.782252", "rc": 0, "start": "2020-03-11 23:00:50.779089", "stderr": "", "stderr_lines": [], "stdout": "total 4\ndrwxr-xr-x 7 azureuser azureuser 4096 Mar 9 20:14 directory-with-stuff", "stdout_lines": ["total 4", "drwxr-xr-x 7 azureuser azureuser 4096 Mar 9 20:14 directory-with-stuff"]}
TASK [Project_add/roles/common : debug] *************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [client_Host_9d63] => {
"msg": "total 4\ndrwxr-xr-x 7 azureuser azureuser 4096 Mar 9 20:14 directory-with-stuff"
}
TASK [Project_add/roles/common : Running make libs to build libraries] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
skipping: [client_Host_9d63] => {"changed": false, "skip_reason": "Conditional result was False"}
TASK [Project_add/roles/common : Running make clean for static tarballls] ***************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
skipping: [client_Host_9d63] => {"changed": false, "skip_reason": "Conditional result was False"}
No idea why it says it says the folder doesn't exist, can anyone shed light on what I'm doing wrong?
I think its syntax issue. Use double instead of single.i.e '{{' instead of '{"
args:
chdir: "{{ file_path_home }}"
- stat:
path: "{{ file_path_home }}"
register: infra_problem_dir_check