Hi Ed, You are correct that the environment will not get imported into puppet. When you restart the puppet daemon, you are missing your custom fact because daemon will run as its own process with its own environment, so just exporting the variable will only effect your current running environment and not the puppet daemon environment. As such, the behavior your are seeing is expected.
Looking around, I think this looks like a better way to get facts in: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Adding_Facts This will allow you to get some level of synchronization of your custom facts from your master to your clients in a much cleaner way. Hope this helps. Zach On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Edward Bailey < eds.mailing.list.acco...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am having a great deal of trouble using a custom fact in a module and I > am hoping someone can help me out. > > I am using facter-1.5.0-2.el4 and puppet-0.24.5-1.el4. I know these are > really old versions. > > The custom fact is defined using an environmental variable > > export FACTER_VERTICAL="dev fit" > > and I can see the fact in the output of facter > > [xxxxx ~]# facter | grep -i vertical > vertical => dev fit > > In the module I am trying to use the fact in the following way > > file { "/etc/yum.repos.d/env32-envision.repo": > ensure => present, > mode => 0664, > owner => root, > group => root, > content => $vertical ? { > "dev fit" => > template("ads_yum2/env32-dev-fit.repo.erb"), > default => > template("ads_yum2/env32-dev-staging.repo.erb"), > require => File["/etc/yum.repos.d/base_os.repo"], > } > } > > When I restart puppet the output is the default option instead of the "dev > fit" option. If I run puppet interactively "puppetd --debug --test" I get > the correct output based on the custom fact. I understand that puppet will > not inherent environmental variables but since the fact is present I thought > this approach would work. Am I wrong? > > I have been banging my head against the wall over this for some time. I > appreciate any input. > > Thanks > > Ed > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > -- Zach z...@puppetlabs.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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.
