Issue #13396 has been updated by Ken Barber.
Krzysztof Wilczynski wrote: > Hi, > > [...] > > I personally like the idea of implementing our own which command in pure > > ruby (and maybe with a fixed array of paths where we expect to find the > > executable). > > +1 > > We purge could purge current PATH and set our own as well. On Linux, there is > only a finite number of places where binaries can be, and if you have > non-standard tree (or use Fedora :-P), then its your problem (which you would > kindly report back to us, I hope). > > P.S. Not having a fully-qualified paths can be a potential security issue as > somebody pointed out to me. > > KW Agreed - having control of the 'which' functionality gives us more choices and power (mhwahaha). I've even considered the possibility to allow users to override PATH in our oft-spoken-of-perhaps-done-in-the-future facter config file :-). Its a good idea without a doubt. ---------------------------------------- Bug #13396: Facter not working with recent net-tools https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13396#change-60921 Author: Stefan Schulte Status: Accepted Priority: High Assignee: Category: Target version: Keywords: Branch: Affected Facter version: Facter does not work at all with recent net-tools package on gentoo (and probably other OS as well) <pre> # facter Error: No such file or directory - /sbin/ifconfig -a # </pre> puppet therefore also does not work anymore <pre> # puppet apply -v -e 'notify { "Hello World": }' Could not run: Could not retrieve facts for host.example.com: No such file or directory - /sbin/ifconfig -a </pre> `sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20111120203157` does work while `sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908` (latest in portage tree) does not. I found the following commit in the net-tools repository that is causing the error. Apperently `ifconfig` has moved to `/bin` so facter does not find it anymore. <pre> commit 36b541c9f3efe55c5871674ee926be8b20339497 Author: Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> Date: Fri Dec 2 16:19:08 2011 -0500 ifconfig/route: move to /bin These tools provide quite a bit of good information which is available to non-root users, so let's move them to /bin for people to use. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger &[email protected]> </pre> Current workaround: Create a symlink from `/sbin/ifconfig` to `/bin/ifconfig` -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
