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diff --git a/docsite/rst/intro_configuration.rst b/docsite/rst/intro_configuration.rst index d5820a5b5f..9628735087 100644 --- a/docsite/rst/intro_configuration.rst +++ b/docsite/rst/intro_configuration.rst @@ -452,6 +452,22 @@ This is the default location Ansible looks to find modules:: Ansible knows how to look in multiple locations if you feed it a colon separated path, and it also will look for modules in the "./library" directory alongside a playbook. +.. _local_tmp: + +local_tmp +========= + +When Ansible gets ready to send a module to a remote machine it usually has to +add a few things to the module: Some boilerplate code, the module's +parameters, and a few constants from the config file. This combination of +things gets stored in a temporary file until ansible exits and cleans up after +itself. The default location is a subdirectory of the user's home directory. +If you'd like to change that, you can do so by altering this setting:: + + local_tmp = $HOME/.ansible/tmp + +Ansible will then choose a random directory name inside this location. + .. _log_path: log_path |