How do you stop Ansible from creating retry files in the home directory

Question

When Ansible has problems running plays against a host, it will output the name of the host into a file in the user's home directory ending with '.retry'. Is there a way to turn them off or put them in a different directory?

Answer 1

There are two options that you can add to the [defaults] section of the ansible.cfg file that will control whether or not .retry files are created and where they are created.

[defaults]

...

retry_files_enabled = True  # Create them - the default

retry_files_enabled = False # Do not create them

retry_files_save_path = "~/" # The directory they will go into

                             # (home directory by default)

Answer 2

[defaults]
...
retry_files_enabled = True  # Create them - the default
retry_files_enabled = False # Do not create them

retry_files_save_path = "~/" # The directory they will go into
                             # (home directory by default)

Comments

Is this in ansible.config file?