Issue #19921 has been updated by Sebastiaan van S. Status changed from Unreviewed to Investigating Assignee set to Sebastiaan van S
---------------------------------------- Bug #19921: Fedora Core ifconfig output different to RedHat so ipaddress6 is not set https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/19921#change-94579 * Author: Tony Kew * Status: Investigating * Priority: High * Assignee: Sebastiaan van S * Category: * Target version: * Keywords: ipaddress6 fedora fc18 * Branch: * Affected Facter version: development ---------------------------------------- rhelhost$ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago) rhelhost$ ifconfig eth0 | grep inet6 inet6 addr: fe80::1234:1234:1234:1234/64 Scope:Link inet6 addr: fdf3:f194:7b0a:710e::34/64 Scope:Global rhelhost$ facter | grep ^ipaddress6 ipaddress6 => fdf3:f194:7b0a:710e::34 rhelhost$ fc18host$ cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow) fc18host$ ifconfig p2p1 | grep inet6 inet6 fdf3:f194:7b0a:710e::50 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global> inet6 fe80::4321:4321:4321:4321 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> fc18host$ facter | grep ^ipaddress6 fc18host$ The code in /usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/facter/ipaddress6.rb searches for the IPv6 address after 'inet6 addr:' which does not work on FC18 where the address follows (just) 'inet6' fc18host$ cat /usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/facter/ipaddress6.rb [...] Facter.add(:ipaddress6) do confine :kernel => :linux setcode do output = Facter::Util::Resolution.exec('/sbin/ifconfig 2>/dev/null') get_address_after_token(output, 'inet6 addr:') end end [...] fc18host$ A possible fix is to use /sbin/ip, if available. The following works for me: Facter.add(:ipaddress6) do confine :kernel => :linux if File.executable?("/sbin/ip") # use /sbin/ip output = Facter::Util::Resolution.exec('/sbin/ip -family inet6 address list 2>/dev/null') output = get_address_after_token(output, 'inet6') setcode do output end else # use /sbin/ifconfig setcode do output = Facter::Util::Resolution.exec('/sbin/ifconfig 2>/dev/null') get_address_after_token(output, 'inet6 addr:') end end end -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
