community.general.aix_inittab – Manages the inittab on AIX¶
Note
This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.5.1).
To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.aix_inittab
.
Parameters¶
Notes¶
Note
The changes are persistent across reboots.
You need root rights to read or adjust the inittab with the
lsitab
,chitab
,mkitab
orrmitab
commands.Tested on AIX 7.1.
Examples¶
# Add service startmyservice to the inittab, directly after service existingservice.
- name: Add startmyservice to inittab
community.general.aix_inittab:
name: startmyservice
runlevel: 4
action: once
command: echo hello
insertafter: existingservice
state: present
become: yes
# Change inittab entry startmyservice to runlevel "2" and processaction "wait".
- name: Change startmyservice to inittab
community.general.aix_inittab:
name: startmyservice
runlevel: 2
action: wait
command: echo hello
state: present
become: yes
- name: Remove startmyservice from inittab
community.general.aix_inittab:
name: startmyservice
runlevel: 2
action: wait
command: echo hello
state: absent
become: yes
Return Values¶
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Authors¶
Joris Weijters (@molekuul)