Puppet users - Dec 2010 - Using one fact to make another fact

Hi there,

i want to create a user. The name of the user is based on the
hostname. If my hostname is ,,notebook12'''', my user is
,,user12''''.

The idea is to replace ,,notebook'''' with
,,user'''' and create fact
called ,,username''''.

But my fact doesn''t work:

Facter.add("username") do
  setcode do
    $username = Facter.hostname
    $username.sub!(/notebook/, ''user'')
    puts $username
  end
end

I suspect the problem is in the third line ;).

Any help is greatly appreciated.

MFG,

Karsten

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On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:33 AM, tecneeq <tecneeq@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> i want to create a user. The name of the user is based on the
> hostname. If my hostname is ,,notebook12'''', my user is
,,user12''''.
>
> The idea is to replace ,,notebook'''' with
,,user'''' and create fact
> called ,,username''''.
>
> But my fact doesn''t work:
>
> Facter.add("username") do
>  setcode do
>    $username = Facter.hostname
Facter.value(:hostname)
>    $username.sub!(/notebook/, ''user'')
>    puts $username
>  end
> end
>
> I suspect the problem is in the third line ;).
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> MFG,
>
> Karsten
>
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>> Facter.add("username") do
>>  setcode do
>>    $username = Facter.hostname
> 
> Facter.value(:hostname)
> 
>>    $username.sub!(/notebook/, ''user'')
>>    puts $username
and no need to puts, facter expects $username to be returned. But beware
that $username is a global variable and you should avoid that one, hence
you just write it without $

~pete

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