Hi, I malformed my question. This is a hint in the right direction.
Romain On Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:26:20 UTC+1, Luke Bigum wrote: > > Romain, I am confused. > > In your first post you said you need to check if a package exists on the > "Agent", the Puppet client. > > Now below you say you need the check executed on the Master. > > Facts are executed on the Agents and only ever on Agents. If you want to > check for something on a client/agent machine, you use a Fact, like the one > you posted below. > > If you want to execute arbitrary code on the Master (during catalogue > compilation) probably the simplest thing you are after is the Generate > function: > > http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/function.html#generate > > On linux, I would use something that looks a bit like this: > > class woof { > $file_exists = generate('/bin/test', '-f', > '/softw4pc/Misc/pfoleproxy/pfoleproxy*.txt') > if $file_exists { > ... > } > } > > There are other ways you can execute arbitrary code, like embedded Ruby > with the inline_template() function, pure Ruby manifests, or bury the code > somehow in a custom type and provider. > > Does that help? > > -Luke > > On Thursday, December 13, 2012 6:46:07 AM UTC, Romain Gales wrote: >> >> The facter should be executed on the server instead on the client. >> >> >> >> >> On Thursday, December 13, 2012 1:29:23 AM UTC+1, Jakov Sosic wrote: >>> >>> On 11/28/2012 09:46 PM, Romain Gales wrote: >>> > there is what i tried: >>> > >>> > # getpfoleproxyver.rb >>> > # >>> > Facter.add(:getpfoleproxyver) do >>> > setcode do >>> > Facter::Util::Resolution.exec('basename `ls >>> > /softw4pc/Misc/pfoleproxy/pfoleproxy*.txt`') >>> > end >>> > end >>> > >>> > the fact is working fine, but how to use this in my manifest? >>> > i tried a lot but it was always empty? >>> > >>> > $getpfoleproxyver should be correct, no? >>> >>> Are you sure it's working on the client? You can see the value when you >>> type facter -p | grep getpfoleproxyver >>> >>> ? >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/au5MT1bWYxcJ. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.
