On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Jim Richard <jimr6...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yep, a custom fact. In case someone else happens upon this looking for a
> similar answer, here's my custom fact to override Facter's default path
> fact:
>
> Facter.add('path') do
> confine :kernel => 'windows'
> setcode do
> my_fact = Facter::Util::Resolution.exec('C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /C
> "reg query "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
> Manager\Environment" /v Path""')
> my_fact.rpartition('REG_EXPAND_SZ').slice(2).strip
> end
> end
>
> Thanks Rob !
>
Don't forget about file system redirection and that there is also registry
redirection -
http://puppetlabs.com/blog/how-avoid-common-windows-gotchas-puppet
Also, you need to combine the HKCU values as well to get the full path.
>
>
>
> On Thursday, July 17, 2014 3:37:03 PM UTC-4, Jim Richard wrote:
>>
>> Facter on a Windows 2008R2 server is doing something weird. Version of
>> facter is 2.0.2.
>>
>> If I, from the Puppet command prompt, do a "echo %Path%", I see exactly
>> what I expect. But if I say "facter Path", it shows me all of the Puppet
>> added path stuff twice, ie. the output is almost twice as much text.
>>
>> Oddly, the original pre: puppet agent install path data is still reported
>> by facter, correctly, not doubled up, but all of the path items added by
>> the puppet agent install process show up twice when I issue a "facter
>> Path".
>>
>> My "real" path:
>>
>> E:\oracle\product\11.2.0\db_1\bin;%SystemRoot%\system32;%
>> SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;%SYSTEMROOT%\
>> System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Unix;E:\oracle\product\
>> 11.2.0\db_1\OPatch;C:\jdk_release\bin;F:\RATEWARE
>>
>> What facter thinks is my Path:
>>
>> C:\Program Files (x86)\Puppet Labs\Puppet\puppet\bin;C:\Program Files
>> (x86)\Puppet Labs\Puppet\facter\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Puppet
>> Labs\Puppet\hiera\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Puppet
>> Labs\Puppet\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Puppet
>> Labs\Puppet\sys\ruby\bin;C:\Program
>> Files (x86)\Puppet Labs\Puppet\sys\tools\bin;C:\Program Files
>> (x86)\Puppet Labs\Puppet\puppet\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Puppet
>> Labs\Puppet\facter\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Puppet
>> Labs\Puppet\hiera\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Puppet
>> Labs\Puppet\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Puppet Labs\Puppet\sys\ruby\bin;C:\
>> ProgramFiles(x86)\PuppetLabs\Puppet\sys\tools\bin;E:\
>> oracle\product\11.2.0\db_1\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\
>> Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\
>> WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Unix;E:\oracle\product\11.2.0\
>> db_1\OPatch;C:\jdk_release\bin;F:\RATEWARE
>>
>>
>> Any ideas what might cause this?
>>
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