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Folks, I am adding a line to /etc/profile to export a FACT like this: export FACTER_system_role=<system_role>. In ubuntu, running puppet 2.6.4 and facter 1.5.8, this fact is not making it to the server. If I run sudo env | grep FACTER i see all facter related env variables there.. What could be the reason for this not working? Thanks in advance. -- You received this messag...

Is there a repository of Facter plugins that people have made? I''m working on a few that i wouldn''t mind sharing when complete.

Facter has the feature that it will turn any environment variable named FACTER_* into a fact. I can do this on the commandline no problem, but when I attempt this in puppet it seems to ignore that parts. Is anyone else seeing this? (Is this expected behavior?) I don''t see a ticket or a mail thread on it - though my searching powers have been weak the last couple o...

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all We''re currently looking at the next release of Facter and the future direction of the tool. I''d like to try and prompt some discussions on facter and what people want from it. As a starter here''s some (although not all) of the ideas we''ll be working through: 1. Namespaces - add a namespace or tiered