community.general.aix_inittab module – Manages the inittab on AIX

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 12.2.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.aix_inittab.

Synopsis

  • Manages the inittab on AIX.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

action

string

Action the init process performs for this entry.

Choices:

  • "boot"

  • "bootwait"

  • "hold"

  • "initdefault"

  • "off"

  • "once"

  • "ondemand"

  • "powerfail"

  • "powerwait"

  • "respawn"

  • "sysinit"

  • "wait"

command

string / required

Command to be executed.

insertafter

string

After which inittab line should the new entry inserted.

name

aliases: service

string / required

Name of the inittab entry.

runlevel

string / required

Runlevel of the entry.

state

string

Whether the entry should be present or absent in the inittab file.

Choices:

  • "absent"

  • "present" ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Returns details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Notes

Note

  • The changes are persistent across reboots.

  • You need root rights to read or adjust the inittab with the lsitab, chitab, mkitab or rmitab 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: true

# 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: true

- name: Remove startmyservice from inittab
  community.general.aix_inittab:
    name: startmyservice
    runlevel: 2
    action: wait
    command: echo hello
    state: absent
  become: true

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

name

string

Name of the adjusted inittab entry.

Returned: always

Sample: "startmyservice"

Authors

  • Joris Weijters (@molekuul)