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

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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?

Jul 11, 2018 in Ansible by Nilesh
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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)
answered Jul 11, 2018 by Kalgi
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[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)
answered Apr 5, 2019 by anonymous
Is this in ansible.config file?

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