paul matthews wrote: > 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 > This is to test your scripts , its nothing related to custom facts distribution per se. > 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 > Did you configure you fileserver.conf on puppetmaster for "facts" module i.e did you add following in your fileserver.conf ?
[facts] path /var/lib/puppet/facts here "/var/lib/puppet/facts" is your path to "facts" file server module on puppetmaster where you will put your custom scripts that will sync to puppet client and gets distributed to $factdest. factpath is the option to puppet which tells where to look for the facts and by default this is set as same as $factdest . > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
