Puppet users - Sep 2008 - "plugins in modules" and the puppet executable

I''m having a problem getting a custom function to resolve when running
the ''puppet'' executable locally.  I pass in the
''--modulepath'' where
my modules live as well as a manifest that sets a few variables and
includes the classes I wish to be applied.  At parse time puppetd
returns " Unknown function...".

As mentioned in
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/WritingYourOwnFunctions, I
put the functions in my ruby site lib and it then worked.  Is there
any way to use the "Plugins in modules" feature
(http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PluginsInModules) with the
puppet executable?  That doc doesn''t mention it, but I''m
assuming
"Plugins in Modules" works for custom functions as well since I
believe that how everything just works when it runs with the full
puppetmaster/puppetd stack.

--Brenton

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2008/9/15 brenton leanhardt
<brenton.leanhardt@gmail.com>:
>
> I''m having a problem getting a custom function to resolve when
running
> the ''puppet'' executable locally.  I pass in the
''--modulepath'' where
> my modules live as well as a manifest that sets a few variables and
> includes the classes I wish to be applied.  At parse time puppetd
> returns " Unknown function...".
>
> As mentioned in
> http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/WritingYourOwnFunctions, I
> put the functions in my ruby site lib and it then worked.  Is there
> any way to use the "Plugins in modules" feature
> (http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PluginsInModules) with the
> puppet executable?  That doc doesn''t mention it, but I''m
assuming
> "Plugins in Modules" works for custom functions as well since I
> believe that how everything just works when it runs with the full
> puppetmaster/puppetd stack.
I just created my first custom facts for one module.  I don''t know if I
did it the correct way, but this is what I did to get it to work:

On the puppetmaster under [main] in puppet.conf:

    # Where Puppet looks for modules
    modulepath = /var/lib/puppet/files/modules

    # activate custom facts
    pluginsync = true

    # set path to custom facts (where the custom fact scripts reside)
    factpath = $modulepath/cron/plugins/facter

puppet.conf on the clients, under [puppetd]:

    # Where puppetd should look for facts.
    factpath = /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter

    # activate custom facts
    pluginsync = true

hth,
Kent

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On Sep 15, 11:33 am, "Kenton Brede" <kbr...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 2008/9/15 brenton leanhardt <brenton.leanha...@gmail.com>:
>
>
>
>
>
> > I''m having a problem getting a custom function to resolve
when running
> > the ''puppet'' executable locally.  I pass in the
''--modulepath'' where
> > my modules live as well as a manifest that sets a few variables and
> > includes the classes I wish to be applied.  At parse time puppetd
> > returns " Unknown function...".
>
> > As mentioned in
> >http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/WritingYourOwnFunctions, I
> > put the functions in my ruby site lib and it then worked.  Is there
> > any way to use the "Plugins in modules" feature
> > (http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PluginsInModules) with the
> > puppet executable?  That doc doesn''t mention it, but
I''m assuming
> > "Plugins in Modules" works for custom functions as well
since I
> > believe that how everything just works when it runs with the full
> > puppetmaster/puppetd stack.
>
> I just created my first custom facts for one module.  I don''t know
if I
> did it the correct way, but this is what I did to get it to work:
>
> On the puppetmaster under [main] in puppet.conf:
>
>     # Where Puppet looks for modules
>     modulepath = /var/lib/puppet/files/modules
>
>     # activate custom facts
>     pluginsync = true
>
>     # set path to custom facts (where the custom fact scripts reside)
>     factpath = $modulepath/cron/plugins/facter
>
> puppet.conf on the clients, under [puppetd]:
>
>     # Where puppetd should look for facts.
>     factpath = /var/lib/puppet/lib/facter
>
>     # activate custom facts
>     pluginsync = true
In my case I''m trying simply to use the puppet executable, not puppetd
or puppetmaster.  In the end I figured out my problem.  I was trying
to set ''--pluginpath'' on the command line but I
didn''t notice that the
configuration reference mentioned that was deprecated.  Setting ''--
libdir'' to the path where my plugins were located worked for
me.
>
> hth,
> Kent
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