Nigel Kersten <ni...@explanatorygap.net> writes:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote:
>> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk> writes:
>>> On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 00:44 -0700, Yushu Yao wrote:
[...]
>> I think what you probably want is 'facter --yaml', which emits the data in
>> a format easily consumed by other applications. Wrap, or cache, or process
>> that from your Python library and you have a nice, language independent way
>> to get that data.
>>
>> Which is essentially what you want, right?
>
> I think so. You'll want to work out how to simulate the '-p/--puppet'
> option, but otherwise it's all just going to be yaml parsing.
>
> I see Matthew's concerns about security, but I'd argue you simply wouldn't
> take input that gets used in actual commands. Facter doesn't do this, and a
> wrapper script wouldn't either.
For my site I would probably deploy this as /etc/cron.d/get-facts:
*/15 * * * * root /usr/bin/facter --puppet --yaml > /var/tmp/facts.yaml
Then you could parse that YAML file as whatever user at whatever time, without
having to worry about root access to collect them or whatever.
(...or just use mcollective :)
Daniel
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