I’m using adhoc command for example
ansible some_group_of_hosts -m copy -a "src=/some_local_file dest=/remote_path/" -u someuser --become-user root --ask-pass --ask-become-pass
After copy in the remote host. I found temp files in the directory ~/.ansible/tmp
How to remove this temp directory on remote host? Using another module like “commmand” ? In the reference of copy ansible module i did not found about remove temp file after copy.
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Answer
~/.ansible/tmp
is a “working” directory for Ansible on remote host.
As far as I know, it is not supposed to be removed.
For each task Ansible creates ~/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-12345.1234.12345
directory and then cleans up only ansible-tmp-xxx
subdirectory, and not “root” working directory.
You can change this remote path with remote_tmp setting or with environment variable, like:
ANSIBLE_REMOTE_TEMP=/tmp ansible some_group_of_hosts -m copy -a "src=/some_local_file dest=/remote_path/" -u someuser --become-user root --ask-pass --ask-become-pass
This will force Ansible to work in /tmp
and not create ~/.ansible/tmp
. But there’s a risk of someone intercepting temporary data inside common /tmp
directory.