Hi, I'm attempting to create a custom fact to tell me the day of the week ( to be used as a file suffix for vmware snapshots). I've followed the wiki which advises deploying facts via modules for releases >0.24. As I understand this means :-
1. creating a plugins/facter directory under an existing (or new module) 2. dropping in your ruby based facter (.rb) script to that directory 3. adding the following to /etc/puppet/puppet.conf on the master [main] pluginsync = true factpath = $vardir/lib/facter Aftre this things get a bit hazy for me. The Adding Facts wiki page http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/AddingFacts talks about :- >> Create a directory called facter/ somewhere, and set the environment variable $RUBYLIB to its parent. You can then run facter, and it will import your code: >> host:~$ mkdir -p ~/lib/ruby/facter ; export RUBYLIB=~/lib/ruby >> host:/tmp$ cp /path/to/hardware_platform.rb $RUBYLIB/facter >> host:/tmp$ facter hardware_platform >> SUNW,Sun-Blade-1500 Do I need to do this or is this deprecated with modules? Also, what does the factpath do? Does that need to exist on master and clients. The final step is to run puppetd with --factsync on (I guess) a client. On mine it returns an error # puppetd -vt --factsync info: Retrieving facts err: /File[/var/lib/puppet/facts]: Failed to generate additional resources during transaction: Fileserver module 'facts' not mounted In short, as you can probably tell, I don't really know what I'm doing so any help would be great Cheers Paul -- Paul Matthews ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" 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-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
