ok - that makes sense, but why does facter have a feature
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/faq.html#can-i-access-environmental-variables-with-facter
where you can expose environmental variables as facts if puppet will not
recognize the facts? Is the issue because of the old version of facter I am
using?
Thanks
Ed
On Nov 9, 2010 5:45pm, Zach Leslie <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Ed,
You are correct that the environment will not get imported into puppet.
When you restart the puppet daemon, you are missing your custom fact
because daemon will run as its own process with its own environment, so
just exporting the variable will only effect your current running
environment and not the puppet daemon environment. As such, the behavior
your are seeing is expected.
Looking around, I think this looks like a better way to get facts in:
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Adding_Facts
This will allow you to get some level of synchronization of your custom
facts from your master to your clients in a much cleaner way.
Hope this helps.
Zach
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Edward Bailey
[email protected]> wrote:
I am having a great deal of trouble using a custom fact in a module and I
am hoping someone can help me out.
I am using facter-1.5.0-2.el4 and puppet-0.24.5-1.el4. I know these are
really old versions.
The custom fact is defined using an environmental variable
export FACTER_VERTICAL="dev fit"
and I can see the fact in the output of facter
[xxxxx ~]# facter | grep -i vertical
vertical => dev fit
In the module I am trying to use the fact in the following way
file { "/etc/yum.repos.d/env32-envision.repo":
ensure => present,
mode => 0664,
owner => root,
group => root,
content => $vertical ? {
"dev fit" => template("ads_yum2/env32-dev-fit.repo.erb"),
default => template("ads_yum2/env32-dev-staging.repo.erb"),
require => File["/etc/yum.repos.d/base_os.repo"],
}
}
When I restart puppet the output is the default option instead of
the "dev fit" option. If I run puppet interactively "puppetd --debug
--test" I get the correct output based on the custom fact. I understand
that puppet will not inherent environmental variables but since the fact
is present I thought this approach would work. Am I wrong?
I have been banging my head against the wall over this for some time. I
appreciate any input.
Thanks
Ed
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