You can think of them as reversed if it will help you understand it.
As for the ansible.builtin.file module, the "path" (alias "dest") is the
thing you are creating / modifying / deleting. "src" is what the ASCII
arrow points to when you do "ls -l" on the command line.
On Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 2:50:22 PM UTC-5 Todd Lewis wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from Gmail Mobile
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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