Point taken on perl overkill .. trying to get something working and
copy/pasted someone else's solution ;)
In any case, I expect this to get all of the non-localhost interface
names, sort them, and return me the IP address of the last in the
list.
When run from commandline by name it works great.
Just to make sure .. simplified without perl ..
[root@uc-01 ~]# cat
/opt/wdts/puppet/production/modules/puppet/lib/facter/last_interface.rb
Facter.add('last_interface') do
setcode do
name = Facter::Core::Execution.exec('ip -o l | grep -v loopback | sed
\'s/://g\' | cut -d\' \' -f2 | sort -n
I have more information .. it seems almost like facter is caching a stale
result. While troubleshooting at the commandline I commented out the second
line (Facter::value) and had it just return the name it was finding. After
I made that change 'facter last_interface' returned the (correct)
On Sunday, February 8, 2015 at 3:47:58 PM UTC-6, John D'Ausilio wrote:
So I have a custom fact which works fine from the commandline: facter
last_interface (it returns the ip address of the last of a sorted list of
interface names)
If I just run facter without parameters, the value in
No idea what virtual box is doing, I'd try to keep it internal and use
existing facts like interfaces, lop off the loopback interface and grab
the last element of the array and use Facter.value as you are doing
John
On 10 February 2015 at 05:31, John D'Ausilio jdausi...@gmail.com wrote:
I have
