This turned out to be a script error, where I was rm'ing a file that occassionally is /dev/null Ansible was in no way responsible. Sorry for the false alarm and thanks for the awesome software!
Very Respectfully, Dan CaJacob On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Dan CaJacob <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Can you please share the relevant command lines and playbook snippets >> that got you there? >> > > It's a pretty big role-based system. Can I share it with you privately? > > (Also can we see the output in the context of the run?) >> > > I don't think I have it, unfortunately. It happened several times, but > not always. Never had this problem before with the same system. I kind of > wonder if it correlates with me CTRL-C exiting the ansible-playbook run... > > >> >> Ansible version? >> > > Not sure exactly. I have recently upgraded to 1.4.4 via pip. But I was > running maybe 1.2.3 before that (like a day ago). Unfortunately I am not > sure if I got the problem on one or the other or both. > > I can try deploying to a local node tonight to see if I can recreate the > problem. > > >> >> I see su, so I'm not sure if you are using the new 1.5 su keyword or are >> running su instead the playbook, etc. >> > > I don't think I use su anywhere explicitly (shelled out), but my roles do > sometimes change user. > > >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Dan CaJacob <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I recently got some errors on the end nodes I was deploying to. Error >>> is: "-su: /dev/null: Permission denied", which in general seems to be >>> recoverable after a reboot. It looks like the /dev/null file is just >>> deleted somehow. Has anyone else seen this? Very weird. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Ansible Project" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ansible-project/GGDeujQ6QMs/unsubscribe >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
