You can go further by removing the require facter line as it should be
unnecessary too :)
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Dan White <y...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Fantastic !
> Thanks, Gary. I knew it had to be some bone-head boo-boo like that.
>
> I trimmed it down further:
>
> #Return the broadcast address of eth0
> require 'facter'
> Facter.add("broadcast") do
> setcode ("ipcalc -s -b #{Facter.value('ipaddress')}
> #{Facter.value('netmask')} | cut -d= -f2")
> end
>
>
> “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere
> in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
> Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)
>
> ----- Gary Larizza <g...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Dan White <y...@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm a custom fact n00b :(
> > >
> > > ---broadcast.rb:
> > > #Return the broadcast address of eth0
> > > require 'facter'
> > >
> > > Facter.add("broadcast") do
> > > ipaddr = Facter.value('ipaddress')
> > > nmask = Facter.value('netmask')
> > > setcode do
> > > Facter::Util::Resolution.exec{"ipcalc -s -b #{ipaddr} #{nmask} |
> > > cut -d= -f2"}
> > >
> >
> > Try using parenthesis instead of curly braces in
> > Facter::Util::Resolution.exec ()
> >
> > You could ALSO do: setcode("ipcalc -s -b #{ipaddr} #{nmask} | cut -d=
> > -f2")
> > Passing a string to setcode instead of a block pipes the command to
> > Facter::Util::Resolution.exec()
> >
> >
> > end
> > > end
> > >
> > > ...and when I run puppet apply, I get:
> > >
> > > Could not retrieve broadcast: wrong number of arguments (0 for 1)
> > >
> > > Puppet 2.7.12
> > > ruby 1.8.7 (patchlevel 352) [x86_64-linux]
> > >
>
> >
> > --
> >
> > Gary Larizza
> > Professional Services Engineer
> > Puppet Labs
>
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