Ansible LineInfile
# NOTE: Before 2.3, option 'dest', 'destfile' or 'name' was used instead of 'path'
- name: Ensure SELinux is set to enforcing mode
lineinfile:
path: /etc/selinux/config
regexp: '^SELINUX='
line: SELINUX=enforcing
- name: Make sure group wheel is not in the sudoers configuration
lineinfile:
path: /etc/sudoers
state: absent
regexp: '^%wheel'
- name: Replace a localhost entry with our own
lineinfile:
path: /etc/hosts
regexp: '^127\.0\.0\.1'
line: 127.0.0.1 localhost
owner: root
group: root
mode: '0644'
- name: Ensure the default Apache port is 8080
lineinfile:
path: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
regexp: '^Listen '
insertafter: '^#Listen '
line: Listen 8080
- name: Ensure we have our own comment added to /etc/services
lineinfile:
path: /etc/services
regexp: '^# port for http'
insertbefore: '^www.*80/tcp'
line: '# port for http by default'
- name: Add a line to a file if the file does not exist, without passing regexp
lineinfile:
path: /tmp/testfile
line: 192.168.1.99 foo.lab.net foo
create: yes
# NOTE: Yaml requires escaping backslashes in double quotes but not in single quotes
- name: Ensure the JBoss memory settings are exactly as needed
lineinfile:
path: /opt/jboss-as/bin/standalone.conf
regexp: '^(.*)Xms(\\d+)m(.*)$'
line: '\1Xms${xms}m\3'
backrefs: yes
# NOTE: Fully quoted because of the ': ' on the line. See the Gotchas in the YAML docs.
- name: Validate the sudoers file before saving
lineinfile:
path: /etc/sudoers
state: present
regexp: '^%ADMIN ALL='
line: '%ADMIN ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL'
validate: /usr/sbin/visudo -cf %s
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