Puppet users - Jan 2014 - When does puppet agent load newly installed facter facts?

I think I have run into some sort of facter caching issue in the puppet
agent that I am hoping someone can explain.

When I launch a new server I run the following command to get things
started.

puppet agent --test --onetime --no-daemonize --waitforcert 5

The puppetmaster then downloads to the server as one would expect. Included
in this download are some new custom facts (one is called
cassandra_home_dir)  that I have written. It correctly puts them in
/var/lib/puppet/lib/facter.

After the puppet agent has downloaded the custom facts it continues
processing. In one of my .pp files there is a resource declaration as
follows:

   file {"cassandraEnv":
      owner => 'cassandra',
      group => 'cassandra',
      mode  => '744',
      ensure => present,
      path => "*${cassandra_home_dir}*/conf/cassandra-env.sh",
      content => template('db/cassandra-env.sh.template.erb'),
      require => Exec['installCassandra'],
   }

But it is failing on this resource because ${cassandra_home_dir} is empty
and therefore it is trying to put the file in the /conf directory which
doesn't exist. The Exec['installCassandra'] executed correctly
immediately
prior to the attempt to create the file['cassandraEnv'] resource. So I
know
the appropriate information is available from the file system.

If I run the puppet agent command again everything works fine because the
${cassandra_home_dir} variable is no longer empty. So I have done nothing
different other than rerun the puppet agent.


*Does puppet agent cache facter facts at startup that is preventing it from
loading my newly downloaded fact?*

-- 
John Pyeatt
Singlewire Software, LLC
www.singlewire.com
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john.pyeatt@singlewire.com

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