facter 3.2 global custom facts directory?

[dkoleary]

Hey;

I'm drafing some custom facts that I would like to have available to everyone even outside of puppet.  The facts themselves work just fine for root and will work for normal users if I specify the --external-dir option:

$ sudo facter env                                     

tst

$ facter --external-dir=/opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d env

tst

Without that, facter run as a normal user doesn't find the script. Is there a config file somewhere that I can specify, globally, that custom facts are in /opt/puppetlabs/facter/facts.d or a default global directory (facter --debug doesn't seem to show one...)? Alternatively, I could set an alias in /etc/profile so everyone gets it but that seems like a bit of a kludge.

Any info is appreciated.

Thanks

Doug O'Leary

[Christopher Wood]

All the custom facts here in /etc/facter/facts.d have worked just fine across the facter 2.4.4 -> facter 3.1.6 upgrade.

https://docs.puppet.com/facter/3.1/custom_facts.html

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[dkoleary]

Thanks for the response. I'm pretty sure I tried /etc/faster/facts.d; but, I'll confirm that.

Thanks again.

[Christopher Wood]

Just to confirm that's a typo below? You have an "s" in facter.

/etc/facter/facts.d

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 03:15:11PM -0700, dkoleary wrote:
> Thanks for the response. I'm pretty sure I tried /etc/faster/facts.d; but, I'll confirm that.
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> Thanks again.
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[dkoleary]

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

[Christopher Wood]

I thought it might too, but turns out probably not:

https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11449

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