I think this is a documentation issue only. Looking at this ticket
https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/FACT-826 I see mention of a different fact directory. Once i copied my facts to that new directory it picks them up. On Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 10:01:44 AM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > > I just upgraded to puppet4.2 aio on some machines to fix a bug we have > been having with puppet. > > But this introduced a new problem. It seems like out custom facts are not > being loaded by puppet or facter. > > We have 3 external facts manually set in files. > > [root@xxxxx facts.d]# ll /etc/facter/facts.d/ > total 12 > -rw------- 1 root root 16 Jun 11 09:34 datacenter.txt > -rw------- 1 root root 13 Jun 11 09:34 stack.txt > -rw------- 1 root root 12 Jun 11 09:34 track.txt > > > > > but facter does not see them by default > > [root@xxxxx facts.d]# /opt/puppetlabs/bin/facter | grep stack > > > If i use the externa-dir option it works. > > [root@java-d11ah facts.d]# /opt/puppetlabs/bin/facter --external-dir > /etc/facter/facts.d/ | grep stack > stack => javaact > > > I dont see anything in the release notes that would of changed this. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/4d257aa1-f32a-417a-9a7c-92891ad113f4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
