Testing ansible-rsyn forced update: $ git show HEAD commit 5d498052b808516b0411d4f3ce88adc9b842198b Author: Timothy Appnel <tim@appnel.com> Date: Mon Jun 10 19:21:36 2013 -0400 Introduced ansible-rsync to core

running with paramiko

$ ansible-playbook -i antares.ginsys.net, synchtest.yml -vvv

PLAY [antares.ginsys.net] ***************************************************** 

TASK: [synchronize src=./testfile dest=/tmp/ verbosity=1] ********************* 
<antares.ginsys.net> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: serge on PORT 22 TO antares.ginsys.net
<antares.ginsys.net> EXEC /bin/sh -c 'mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1373268900.99-235780032268628 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1373268900.99-235780032268628 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1373268900.99-235780032268628'
<antares.ginsys.net> PUT /tmp/tmpPW0obV TO /home/serge/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1373268900.99-235780032268628/synchronize
<antares.ginsys.net> EXEC /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/python /home/serge/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1373268900.99-235780032268628/synchronize; rm -rf /home/serge/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1373268900.99-235780032268628/ >/dev/null 2>&1'
failed: [antares.ginsys.net] => {"cmd": "rsync --archive --delay-updates --compress -v --temp-dir /home/serge/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1373268900.99-235780032268628 --rsh 'ssh -i None -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no' ./testfile serge@antares.ginsys.net:/tmp/", "failed": true, "rc": 255}
msg: Warning: Identity file None not accessible: No such file or directory.
Permission denied, please try again.
Permission denied, please try again.
Permission denied (publickey,password).
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(601) [sender=3.0.7]


FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

PLAY RECAP ******************************************************************** 
           to retry, use: --limit @/var/tmp/ansible/synchtest.retry

antares.ginsys.net         : ok=0    changed=0    unreachable=0    failed=1   

synchtest.yml

---
- hosts: antares.ginsys.net
  gather_facts: False
  tasks:
  - action: synchronize src=./testfile dest=/tmp/ verbosity=1

test output

local:
$ ansible-playbook -i antares.ginsys.net, synchtest.yml -vvv -c ssh

PLAY [antares.ginsys.net] ***************************************************** 

TASK: [synchronize src=./testfile dest=/tmp/ verbosity=1] ********************* 
<antares.ginsys.net> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: serge
<antares.ginsys.net> EXEC ['ssh', '-tt', '-q', '-o', 'ControlMaster=auto', '-o', 'ControlPersist=60s', '-o', 'ControlPath=/tmp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r', '-o', 'StrictHostKeyChecking=no', '-o', 'Port=22', '-o', 'KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no', '-o', 'PasswordAuthentication=no', '-o', 'ConnectTimeout=10', 'antares.ginsys.net', "/bin/sh -c 'mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1373268430.09-24064282294749 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1373268430.09-24064282294749 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1373268430.09-24064282294749'"]
<antares.ginsys.net> PUT /tmp/tmpMJlr44 TO /home/serge/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1373268430.09-24064282294749/synchronize
<antares.ginsys.net> EXEC ['ssh', '-tt', '-q', '-o', 'ControlMaster=auto', '-o', 'ControlPersist=60s', '-o', 'ControlPath=/tmp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r', '-o', 'StrictHostKeyChecking=no', '-o', 'Port=22', '-o', 'KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no', '-o', 'PasswordAuthentication=no', '-o', 'ConnectTimeout=10', 'antares.ginsys.net', "/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/python /home/serge/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1373268430.09-24064282294749/synchronize; rm -rf /home/serge/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1373268430.09-24064282294749/ >/dev/null 2>&1'"]

*** this hangs ***

on remote host:
serge    17775  0.0  0.0   3956   588 pts/0    Ss+  09:27   0:00  |       \_ /bin/sh -c /usr/bin/python /home/serge/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1373268430.09-24064282294749/synchronize; rm -rf /home/serge/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1373268430.09-24064282294749/ >/dev/null 2>&1
serge    17776  0.1  0.2  29936  6140 pts/0    S+   09:27   0:00  |           \_ /usr/bin/python /home/serge/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1373268430.09-24064282294749/synchronize
serge    17777  0.0  0.0   3956   596 pts/0    S+   09:27   0:00  |               \_ /bin/sh -c rsync --archive --delay-updates --compress -v --temp-dir /home/serge/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1373268430.09-24064282294749 --rsh 'ssh -i None -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no' ./testfile serge@antares.ginsys.net:/tmp/
serge    17778  0.0  0.0  10568   820 pts/0    S+   09:27   0:00  |                   \_ rsync --archive --delay-updates --compress -v --temp-dir /home/serge/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1373268430.09-24064282294749 --rsh ssh -i None -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no ./testfile serge@antares.ginsys.net:/tmp/
serge    17779  0.0  0.1  38384  2780 pts/0    S+   09:27   0:00  |                       \_ ssh -i None -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -l serge antares.ginsys.net rsync --server -vlogDtprze.iLsf --delay-updates --temp-dir /home/serge/.ansible/tmp/ansible-1373268430.09-24064282294749 . /tmp/

test-directory-layout

$ ls -l
total 4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 serge serge  57 Jul  8 09:23 action_plugins -> /home/serge/src/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/action_plugins
lrwxrwxrwx 1 serge serge  31 Jul  8 09:23 library -> /home/serge/src/ansible/library
-rw-rw-r-- 1 serge serge 126 Jul  8 09:16 synchtest.yml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 serge serge   0 Jul  8 09:15 testfile