On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 11:47:44AM -0700, Vince Skahan wrote: > I think I found a bug in facter in 3.8.2 but wanted to ask here before > opening a PL ticket. > > Basic description is that facter has different behaviors if you run it > without vs. with a fact specified. > > To recreate: > > # echo 'foo = bar' > /etc/facter/facts.d/foo.txt > # facter | grep foo > foo => bar > # facter foo
The structured fact documentation does not have spaces between the fact name, the equals sign, and the fact value. https://docs.puppetlabs.com/facter/2.4/custom_facts.html#structured-data-facts I get the correct behaviour when I rename the fact file with the space in its name implied by the string 'foo = bar'. By using the space it appears you have created a fact named 'foo ' rather than 'foo'. You see that the value of the fact has a space in it too. [root@cwh facts.d]# echo 'fact1 = foo' >fact1.txt [root@cwh facts.d]# facter | grep fact1 fact1 => foo [root@cwh facts.d]# facter | grep processorcount physicalprocessorcount => 1 processorcount => 4 [root@cwh facts.d]# facter fact1 [root@cwh facts.d]# mv fact1.txt 'fact1 '.txt [root@cwh facts.d]# ls -l fact1\ .txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12 Sep 8 16:14 fact1 .txt [root@cwh facts.d]# facter 'fact1 ' foo > # > Net effect is that if you have spaces around the = sign in your custom > fact definitions, the server doesn't match at all. It seems to look up by > name, which returns nothing (or a blank line, or a space - it's hard to > tell which) > > Workaround is to have no spaces around the = sign, but I think this is a > bug needing fixing. The behavior should be the same when you run "facter > | grep foo" and "facter foo" shouldn't it ? > > -- > 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 [1]puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > > [2]https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/f56bf1f3-4d68-4c10-a662-ff578b0668dc%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit [3]https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > 2. > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/f56bf1f3-4d68-4c10-a662-ff578b0668dc%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > 3. https://groups.google.com/d/optout -- 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 puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/20150908202222.GA12431%40iniquitous.heresiarch.ca. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
