Since you are directly executing a command, you really want to use the built-it
Puppet function here:
require 'facter'
Facter.add("yaniv") do
setcode do
Facter::Util::Resolution.exec("cat /tmp/yanivf.txt")
end
end
There is probably some newlines that file that may not be immediately apparent.
The above function takes care of that, plus path searching as well.
On Aug 7, 2012, at 3:19 AM, Yaniv Fine <yanivf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Dan .
> thank you for your help and pointers .
>
>
> i need your advice pls .
> lets say i have /tmp/yanivf.txt
> inside i have a line testing
> when i run
>
> require 'facter'
> Facter.add("yaniv") do
> setcode do 'cat /tmp/yanivf.txt'
> end
> end
>
> and than i run facter i get nothing
>
> when i run
> export FACTER_yanivval=`cat /tmp/yanivf.txt`; facter
> all works fine .
> why facter.add doesnt work ?
>
>
> thank you
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Dan White <y...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Let me re-answer that:
>
> Using the stdlib::facter-dot-d, I expect you are restricted to /etc/facts.d
>
> However, if you look at the examples here (
> http://puppetlabs.com/blog/facter-part-1-facter-101/ ), you can create facts
> that reference files anywhere in the system. The example shows using a file
> at /etc/system_role to populate a fact.
>
> Looking at your original question again, it might be possible to create a
> Ruby script to do what you want.
>
> Look through the examples in that blog entry and the two that follow it.
> It's all great stuff.
>
> “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)
>
> ----- Yaniv Fine <yanivf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Can this be file in other path ?
> > On Aug 6, 2012 4:20 PM, "Dan White" <y...@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I think you are trying to re-invent a wheel that is already in use.
> > >
> > > Consider:
> > >
> > > http://puppetlabs.com/blog/module-of-the-week-puppetlabsstdlib-puppetlabs-standard-library-part-3/
> > >
> > > facter-dot-d; a simple way of pulling facts from external sources.
> > >
> > > From the docs:
> > >
> > > A simple little framework to get facts from external sources. You can
> > > create files in /etc/facter/facts.d which can be text, yaml, json or
> > > executables. In the case of executables it supports caching so you only
> > > need to run your expensive scripts every now and then.
> > >
> > > “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)
> > >
> > > ----- Yaniv Fine <yanivf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi experts .
> > > >
> > > > i would like to write a custom fact the will add a fact to a machine
> > > yaml
> > > > file
> > > > i am a file /etc/file.conf
> > > > inside this file a have many lines like
> > > > value1 = test1
> > > > value2 = test2
> > > >
> > > > i want to create a custom rb file that will grep test2 from value2
> > > value
> > > > from /etc/file.conf , take the test2 and add it to a fact
> > > >
> > > > how can i achieve this ?
> > > > thank you
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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