On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Tom Limoncelli <t...@whatexit.org> wrote: > Sometimes "facter --yaml" doesn't list all the values specified on the > command line. I can't find rhyme nor reason why. Here's a demo to > show what I mean: > > # facter --version > 1.5.7 > > # facter --yaml fqdn macaddress lsbdistcodename > --- > fqdn: my.host.name.example.com > lsbdistcodename: squeeze > macaddress: "00:00:00:00:00:00" > > We had been using the above command for a while to extract values for > a shell script. However we recently discovered that when we have a > Linux box who's primary NIC is "br123" (a bridge device) that the > macaddress fact shows up as "all zeros" like above. (I consider this a > bug but... that's not the point). Luckily macaddress_eth0 shows the > real MAC address no matter what. Therefore, we made the simple code > change to use the macaddress_eth0 fact instead. However now facter > goes silent on most of the values: > > # facter --yaml fqdn macaddress_eth0 lsbdistcodename > --- > fqdn: my.host.name.example.com > macaddress_eth0: > lsbdistcodename: > > This seems to be just related to facts on the command line. If I do a > plain "facter --yaml" I see all the values as expected. See? > > # facter --yaml | egrep '^ > (fqdn|macaddress_eth0|lsbdistcodename|macaddress):' > lsbdistcodename: squeeze > macaddress_eth0: 00:12:a6:07:13:92 > macaddress: "00:00:00:00:00:00" > fqdn: my.host.name.example.com > > > Is this a bug or a feature? Is there a workaround?
I'm think it's a bug fixed in facter 1.5.8. Nan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
