dest: "{{ '/usr/share/' + guacamole_tomcat +
'/.guacamole/guacamole.properties' }}"
On Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 2:41:59 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote:
> I'm trying to create it IN /usr/share/tomcat/.guacamole to point to
> /etc/guacamole/guacamole.properties. Obviously the play isn't right, but
> what should it be? Do I need to make the destination
> "/usr/share/tomcat/.guacamole/guacamole.properties"? Or are the src and
> dest options reversed? The /etc/guacamole/guacamole.properties is a file
> and not a directory.
>
> Thanks,
> Harry
>
> On Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 2:35:44 PM UTC-5 Dick Visser wrote:
>
>> The error can't be any clearer.
>> The symlink you're trying to create already exists as a directory
>>
>>
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>>
>> On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 at 20:25, [email protected] <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I know this should be trivial, but I just cannot get it to work. I'm
>>> trying to create a symbolic link in my playbook. I'm trying to link
>>> /etc/guacamole/guacamole.properties in the /usr/share/tomcat/.guacamole
>>> directory as follows:
>>>
>>> - name: Config | Creating Tomcat symlink For guacamole.properties
>>> ansible.builtin.file:
>>> src: /etc/guacamole/guacamole.properties
>>> dest: "{{ '/usr/share/' + guacamole_tomcat + '/.guacamole' }}"
>>> state: link
>>> owner: "{{ guacamole_tomcat_user }}"
>>> group: "{{ guacamole_tomcat_user }}"
>>> mode: 0664
>>> notify:
>>> - "Restart {{ guacamole_tomcat_service }}"
>>> - Kill guacd
>>> - Restart guacd
>>>
>>> But my playbook keeps giving me this error:
>>>
>>> refusing to convert from directory to symlink for
>>> /usr/share/tomcat/.guacamole
>>>
>>> Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Harry
>>>
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