Puppet users - Mar 2009 - Exposing environment variables to Facter

Hey gang,

During the build of our Linux (EL4 and EL5) images, the kickstart 
process writes out a file (/etc/sysconfig/soe) that contains:

SOE_VERSION="Version string"
SOE_BUILD_DATE="2009-03-06"

I then have /etc/profile.d/facter.sh scripts that has this:

. /etc/sysconfig/puppet
. /etc/sysconfig/soe
FACTER_PUPPETMASTER=$PUPPET_SERVER
FACTER_SOE_VERSION=$SOE_VERSION
FACTER_SOE_BUILD_DATE=$SOE_BUILD_DATE

If I login, obviously the profile is loaded, the envvars are created and 
running puppetd manually means that Facter can see those envvars and my 
motd template works (it inserts those values).

However, when Puppet runs as a service, it doesn''t seem to instantiate
a
full profile for Facter, so those envvars are not visible.

Is there a preferred/recommended way to ensure that Facter, when called 
by Puppet as a service, sees particular envvars?

Thanks,
Avi

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Avi Miller wrote:
> Hey gang,
> 
> During the build of our Linux (EL4 and EL5) images, the kickstart 
> process writes out a file (/etc/sysconfig/soe) that contains:
> 
> SOE_VERSION="Version string"
> SOE_BUILD_DATE="2009-03-06"
> 
> I then have /etc/profile.d/facter.sh scripts that has this:
> 
> . /etc/sysconfig/puppet
> . /etc/sysconfig/soe
> FACTER_PUPPETMASTER=$PUPPET_SERVER
> FACTER_SOE_VERSION=$SOE_VERSION
> FACTER_SOE_BUILD_DATE=$SOE_BUILD_DATE
> 
> If I login, obviously the profile is loaded, the envvars are created and 
> running puppetd manually means that Facter can see those envvars and my 
> motd template works (it inserts those values).
> 
> However, when Puppet runs as a service, it doesn''t seem to
instantiate a
> full profile for Facter, so those envvars are not visible.
> 
> Is there a preferred/recommended way to ensure that Facter, when called 
> by Puppet as a service, sees particular envvars?
The files in /etc/profile.d are, as you found out, only loaded for interactive 
login sessions.  I''d recommend putting those lines directly into 
/etc/sysconfig/puppet (except for the first one, of course), as it''s 
considered a config file anyway.

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Frank Sweetser wrote:
> The files in /etc/profile.d are, as you found out, only loaded for
interactive
> login sessions.  I''d recommend putting those lines directly into
> /etc/sysconfig/puppet (except for the first one, of course), as
it''s
> considered a config file anyway.
That seems like an elegant and simple solution. :) Thanks Frank, I blame 
lack of adequate amounts of coffee for not seeing it sooner.

Thanks,
Avi

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