Hm there doesn't seem to be any easy way to truncate files with #ansible?
I know I can delete, and recreate files, but I want permissions/file ownership/selinux all to be preserved.
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Pure Ansible solution would be as follows:
- name: ensure file exists
copy:
content: ""
dest: /etc/nologin
force: true
Ansible-lint will whine about the user, group and chmod not specified explicitly but it can be ignored with # noqa annotation since your objective is to specifically preserve the existing permissions.
@kravietz Ah! I like that better. I will give it a shot. Thank you!