Hey; Thanks; yes, that was a typo. Responding from an ipad on a shaky surface... bit surprised that was the only one.
Any rate, I now have fact scripts in /etc/facter/facts.d $ ltree /etc/facter/facts.d drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May 28 08:07 /etc/facter/facts.d drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 May 28 08:06 /etc/facter drwxr-xr-x. 122 root root 12288 May 28 08:06 /etc A cleaned up root debug facter run shows that root is hitting all three directories: sudo facter --debug env 2>&1 2016-05-28 08:11:41.053089 INFO puppetlabs.facter - executed with command line: --debug env. [[snip]] 2016-05-28 08:11:41.079647 INFO puppetlabs.facter - requested queries: env. 2016-05-28 08:11:41.079776 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - fact "facterversion" has resolved to "3.2.0". 2016-05-28 08:11:41.080092 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - searching "/opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d" for external facts. [[snip]] 2016-05-28 08:11:41.091406 DEBUG | - env=tst 2016-05-28 08:11:41.091561 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - fact "env" has resolved to "tst". 2016-05-28 08:11:41.091700 DEBUG leatherman.execution:555 - process exited with status code 0. 2016-05-28 08:11:41.091785 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - completed resolving facts from executable file "/opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d/hosts". 2016-05-28 08:11:41.091933 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - searching "/etc/facter/facts.d" for external facts. [[snip]] 2016-05-28 08:11:41.103835 DEBUG | - env=tst 2016-05-28 08:11:41.103998 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - fact "env" has changed from "tst" to "tst". 2016-05-28 08:11:41.104163 DEBUG leatherman.execution:555 - process exited with status code 0. 2016-05-28 08:11:41.104294 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - completed resolving facts from executable file "/etc/facter/facts.d/hosts". 2016-05-28 08:11:41.104428 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - searching "/etc/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d" for external facts. [[snip]] 2016-05-28 08:11:41.116165 DEBUG | - env=tst 2016-05-28 08:11:41.116332 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - fact "env" has changed from "tst" to "tst". 2016-05-28 08:11:41.116493 DEBUG leatherman.execution:555 - process exited with status code 0. Does emphasize the point that I should have those in one and only one of those directories... Following is the same debug run (with nothing snipped) from a non-root user showing that it's not hitting any of those directories: $ facter --debug env 2016-05-28 08:16:03.979516 INFO puppetlabs.facter - executed with command line: --debug env. 2016-05-28 08:16:03.980478 INFO leatherman.ruby:133 - ruby loaded from "/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/libruby.so.2.1.0". 2016-05-28 08:16:04.006387 INFO leatherman.ruby:182 - using ruby version 2.1.9 2016-05-28 08:16:04.006507 INFO puppetlabs.facter - requested queries: env. 2016-05-28 08:16:04.006616 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - fact "facterversion" has resolved to "3.2.0". 2016-05-28 08:16:04.006961 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - skipping external facts for "/home/doug.oleary/.puppetlabs/opt/facter/facts.d": No such file or directory 2016-05-28 08:16:04.007032 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - skipping external facts for "/home/doug.oleary/.facter/facts.d": No such file or directory 2016-05-28 08:16:04.007065 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - no external facts were found. 2016-05-28 08:16:04.007681 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - loading all custom facts. 2016-05-28 08:16:04.007756 DEBUG puppetlabs.facter - fact "env" does not exist. It looks like facter, run as a non-root user, is limited to personal home directories. So, rephrasing the original question: is there some way to tell non-root facter runs to use the standard directories without having to add '--external-dir' everytime? Thanks for the responses. Doug O'Leary On Saturday, May 28, 2016 at 7:18:13 AM UTC-5, Christopher Wood wrote: > > Just to confirm that's a typo below? You have an "s" in facter. > > /etc/facter/facts.d > > > -- 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/4f531be5-d659-46ba-9c57-4d5391f3f114%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
