Steven,
Thanks!! Your example really helped me and I now have the desired custom
fact
On Thursday, February 21, 2013 6:06:57 PM UTC-5, Steven wrote:
> This is the fact that I use
>
> Facter.add("java_version") do
> setcode do
> `/usr/bin/java -version 2>&1`.split("\n")[0].split('"')[1]
> end
> end
>
>
> Steven
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:50:24 +0000
> From: [email protected] <javascript:>
> To: [email protected] <javascript:>
> Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Using Facter to find the Java version running
> on the machine
>
> java -version 2>&1 | head -n 1 | cut -f2 -d'"'
>
> Apparently, the output goes to stderr !
>
> “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)
>
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> *From: *"Craig White" <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> *To: *[email protected] <javascript:>
> *Sent: *Thursday, February 21, 2013 5:14:14 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [Puppet Users] Using Facter to find the Java version
> running on the machine
>
>
> On Feb 21, 2013, at 1:27 PM, Camerodity wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am currently trying to setup a Custom Fact that will can be used to
> determine the version of the Java JRE running on a machine, in order to use
> it in my manifests to ensure the proper JARS are distribured based on
> environment. I'm trying to use the java -version command and then capture
> the JRE release (eg "1.6.0_37"). No matter what I have tried, the output is
> always the full display from the Java -version command. Has anyone done
> this or something similar before? Any suggestions?
> ----
> don't know about the java command but I suspect some variation of this
> will do it. (%x[ ] captures the output of command(s) executed within the
> square brackets)
>
> Facter.add("ruby_version") do
> setcode do
> ruby_version = "unknown"
> rubypath = %x[facter rubysitedir]
> ruby_version = %x[ruby -v | cut -f2 -d ' ']
> ruby_version
> end
> end
>
> Craig
>
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