Puppet users - Sep 2013 - Facts distributed via module missing when Puppet is run out of a cron job

Hi all,

I have the following fact to get the full path of the Puppet executable 
being distributed via a module:

Facter.add("puppet_executable") do
>   setcode do
>     Facter::Util::Resolution.exec(''/usr/bin/which
puppet'')
>   end
> end
>
This fact is used to set the command attribute of the cron job to execute 
puppet.  The facts exists perfectly when manually running puppet agent but 
disappears when puppet executes out of a cron job.  Is this normal 
behavior?  I had to switch over to using external facts to work around this 
issue.

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man which

DESCRIPTION
        which returns the pathnames of the files (or links) which would 
be executed in the current environment, had its arguments been given as 
commands in a strictly POSIX-conformant shell.  It does this by 
searching  the PATH for executable files matching the names of the 
arguments. It does not follow symbolic links.

Your PATH is not the same (probably empty) when you run from cron. I''d 
determine the path to Puppet some other way.

Ramin

On 9/25/2013 12:21 PM, Chadwick Banning wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have the following fact to get the full path of the Puppet executable
> being distributed via a module:
>
>     Facter.add("puppet_executable") do
>        setcode do
>          Facter::Util::Resolution.exec(''/usr/bin/which
puppet'')
>        end
>     end
>
>
> This fact is used to set the command attribute of the cron job to
> execute puppet.  The facts exists perfectly when manually running puppet
> agent but disappears when puppet executes out of a cron job.  Is this
> normal behavior?  I had to switch over to using external facts to work
> around this issue.
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