On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 3:45 PM, <eds.mailing.list.acco...@gmail.com> wrote: > ok - that makes sense, but why does facter have a feature > http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/faq.html#can-i-access-environmental-variables-with-facter > where you can expose environmental variables as facts if puppet will not > recognize the facts? Is the issue because of the old version of facter I am > using?
Most times I've seen people use this functionality has been with puppetd in non-daemon mode. FACTER_foo="woot" puppetd --onetime --verbose --no-daemonize Plus, this works well with standalone "puppet" applying local manifests too. It looks like things aren't so simple in daemon mode. Is there a reason you're not actually doing this as a real fact? > > Thanks > > Ed > > On Nov 9, 2010 5:45pm, Zach Leslie <z...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: >> 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. >> >> >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- Nigel Kersten - Puppet Labs - http://www.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.
