temp dir fact

[Cristian Falcas]

Hello,

Does puppet have a variable for temporary directories for each os, or
I need to write a custom fact with this?

Best regards,
Cristian Falcas

[liu.cy]

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_facts.html

facter have two type custom_facts: custom_facts and external facts

Facter offers a few methods of loading facts:

• $LOAD_PATH, or the ruby library load path
• The environment variable ‘FACTERLIB’
• Facts distributed using pluginsync

you can just use the environment style, puts custom facts in ~/lib/ruby/<os>/facter/ and export FACTERLIB=~/lib/ruby/facter/`uname`

custom facts wrote by ruby code, this is a sample.

# hardware_platform.rb Facter.add("hardware_platform") do setcode do Facter::Util::Resolution.exec('/bin/uname --hardware-platform') end end

the other style facts is external facts.

External facts provide a way to use arbitrary executables or scripts as facts, or set facts statically with structured data. If you’ve ever wanted to write a custom fact in Perl, C, or a one-line text file, this is how.

external facts should default put in /etc/facter/facts.d, and you can use --external-dir option to specify.

[Cristian Falcas]

Thank you for your answer

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[liu.cy]

it looks like I misunderstood what you asked for.

facter doesn't built-in temp directory fact, but i think the temp dir of all unix-like os is /tmp, it only helps when you both mange unix-like and windows hosts.

On Sunday, May 4, 2014 1:50:11 AM UTC+8, Cristian Falcas wrote:

[Cristian Falcas]

I need it for a windows module: some predetermined path where to
download a file. I have no idea if in windows there is such a place,
like unix tmp (meaning is not relativ to user name)

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[liu.cy]

it can be %SystemRoot%\TEMP, aka c:\windows\temp

[jcbollinger]

On Saturday, May 3, 2014 12:50:11 PM UTC-5, Cristian Falcas wrote:

Hello,

Does puppet have a variable for temporary directories for each os, or
I need to write a custom fact with this?

You can get the complete list of facts that any node will provide to Puppet by running "facter -p" on that node.  I don't see a standard fact naming a designated temporary directory when I try it on CentOS 5 or 6.


John

[Cristian Falcas]

I have now something like this in one of my modules:

require 'facter'
Facter.add("temp_dir") { setcode { Dir::tmpdir } }


Why I was asking about a standard fact: I wanted to contribute to some
external module and I needed to download a file on Windows.machines.
And I realized there is now standard location where any user can
download files.

Thank you all for your answers.

Best regards,
Cristian Falcas

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