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Hello,

Thanks for providing this role.

I have just gave it a few test runs on Ubuntu 14.04 and it fails when trying at this task copy metricbeat configuration. Specifically, it fails to validate the metricbeats config using this code validate: /usr/bin/metricbeat.sh -c %s -configtest when running the task as root in my playbook.

The error ansible throws is below.

{"changed": true, "exit_status": 1, "failed": true, "msg": "failed to validate", "stderr": "metricbeat2017/08/12 08:54:53.474024 beat.go:339: CRIT Exiting: error loading config file: config file ("/home/ubuntu/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1502528219.4-28975408851694/source") must be owned by the beat user (uid=0) or root\nExiting: error loading config file: config file ("/home/ubuntu/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1502528219.4-28975408851694/source") must be owned by the beat user (uid=0) or root\n", "stdout": "", "stdout_lines": []}

I have so far failed to understand where the error is coming from because when I try to validate the template on the box using the same command, the validation passes. If I had to guess, I would say it has something to do with the ansible process not having access to either the metricbeat.sh file or another file metricbeat needs to run the validation.

I have temporarily forked the repo and commented out failing line and everything works fine. Am I missing something obvious?

Thanks.