On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 6:31 AM, 'Peter Krauspe' via Puppet Users <puppet-users@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Hi , > > I'm using facter puppet 3.8 7 with factor 2.4.6 on CentOS 7 > > According to puppet/facter docu it's possible to add executable custom facts > using ruby/shell/python scripts and just *.txt files. > > I tried the following: > > <path-to-external-facts>/ruby.rb > /python.py > /shell.sh > /file.txt > > The contens is quite simple > The ruby script runs an external shell command and adds a fact asigning the > output of the shell command > > The shell and python Scripts return some key=value Strings . e.g > > key1=val1 > key2=val2 > > The text file just consists of the above lines > > I tried for example > > export FACTERLIB=<path-to-external-facts> > facter key1 > > All methods are described in the docu, but everything fails. Only the ruby > script > leads to an output > > facter --debug option gave an error message in ALL methods, even in case of > the ruby facts (but here after the error message the output appears) > > What's going wrong here ? > > -- > 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/03b01e8c-b85f-404e-9e27-7460725aa7c2%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Hi Peter - Facter only loads "custom facts" (facts in the standard facter format in ruby *.rb files) in directories specified by FACTERLIB[1]. When using "external facts" (facts derived from arbitrary executable files returning key/value pairs on stdout) the files containing the facts have to reside in a directory supplied as the value to the `--external-dir` flag to facter, ie `facter key1 --external-dir <path-to-external-facts` OR in one of the default external fact directories for your platform[2]. On Linux/OSX running facter as root, these directories are: /opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d/ /etc/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d/ /etc/facter/facts.d/ and when running as a non-root user, $HOME/.facter/facts.d. [1] https://docs.puppet.com/facter/3.4/custom_facts.html#using-the-facterlib-environment-variable [2] https://docs.puppet.com/facter/3.4/custom_facts.html#fact-locations -- Moses Mendoza Puppet Labs -- 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/CA%2B421WbTsTHha%2BpC98_U%3DH0%3Djmko-xZZKVERefcTZHhYSo4vQA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
