Jira (FACT-696) facts.d module "external" facts get put in client dir which facter doesn't look at by default

[David Gardner (JIRA)]

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David Gardner commented on an issue   Re: facts.d module "external" facts get put in client dir which facter doesn't look at by default (These are from the original example I've been trying this with) It's executable for puppet and root: ``` ls -la /var/lib/puppet/facts.d/ total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 1 14:40 . drwxr-xr-x 18 puppet puppet 4096 Jun 9 22:09 .. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 342 Sep 1 14:40 hyperthreading.sh ``` And an strace on the facter run shows that it doesn't look in `/var/lib/puppet/facts.d` where puppet is placing this for a module-provided fact, or for any sh scripts there: ``` strace facter -p hyperthreading 2>&1 | grep hyper execve("/usr/bin/facter", ["facter", "-p", "hyperthreading"], [/* 27 vars */]) = 0 stat("/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/facter/hyperthreading.rb", 0x7fffd2c9dc70) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat("/var/lib/puppet/lib/facter/hyperthreading.rb", 0x7fffd2c9dc70) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) strace facter -p hyperthreading 2>&1 | grep facts.d open("/etc/facter/facts.d", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/etc/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) So: Is the puppet agent placing these files in the wrong location? Or, Should facter be looking in the puppet facts.d sync location? Or, Should I always be using the --external-dir option to facter to get these facts? When running puppet via strace and following forks I see it look at and then write the file into `/var/lib/puppet/facts.d` and not `/var/lib/puppet/facts` as facter does. All of these are being run as the same user (root) for these tests. Add Comment   Facter / FACT-696 facts.d module "external" facts get put in client dir which facter doesn't look at by default Fact scripts placed in the recommended path of <MODULEPATH>/<MODULE>/facts.d/ get added to clients into the /var/lib/puppet/facts.d directory, but then this directory is only searched for .rb ruby fact snippets by default. If facter is run explicitly as:   facter --external-dir /var/lib/puppet/facts.d/ <factname> ..then this works fine, as does l... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- 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 puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.