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06/06/2012

03:44 pm Bug #14366: virtual => physical and is_virtual => false on EC2

This looks like it could solved by cherrypicking this checkout from head. I don't see it in the 1.6.x branch.
http... Ramin K

02:57 pm Feature #14862 (Accepted): Messaging about Facter caching / performance guarantees

We've had some meetings about Facter, caching, and what the user needs really are.
I need to create messaging arou... Jeff Weiss

07:27 am Bug #14847 (Rejected): lsbmajdistrelease.rb gives wrong major for Ubuntu

Currently lsbmajdistrelease is set to 12 (on Ubuntu 12.04) - and this becomes a problem, when running on 12.10 - beca... Klavs Klavsen

05:52 pm Feature #14667 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): External Cache for Facts

Hailee Kenney

05:02 pm Feature #14667: External Cache for Facts

This solution will be supported at least until the next major release of Facter (3.0) and probably beyond that. We kn... Hailee Kenney

06/05/2012

03:16 pm Bug #12723 (Merged - Pending Release): Puppet apply freezes occasionally

Hailee Kenney

02:41 pm Bug #14827 (Merged - Pending Release): Swap facts on MacOS 10 are not scaling the numbers, nor do...

Hailee Kenney

02:24 pm Bug #14827 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Swap facts on MacOS 10 are not scaling the numbers, ...

Oh my how it, and the tests, were broken... Jeff Weiss

01:33 pm Bug #12649 (Merged - Pending Release): Add memory & swap values for FreeBSD

Merged with <https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/commit/8f67b9f328aaf408b85e9c9154aeb7243042d0b4> Jeff Weiss

01:21 pm Bug #14710 (Closed): Facter outputs an error when a script that runs "facter -p" is launched via ...

Hailee Kenney

01:21 pm Feature #2066: Make units optional

Made the decision to make units MB, since this is the smallest reasonable unit to be useful to work from. Ruth Linehan

11:35 am Bug #14827 (Closed): Swap facts on MacOS 10 are not scaling the numbers, nor do they have the pro...

Most swap facts are being scaled to MB or GB, but this is not the case on MacOS 10.
For example:... Hailee Kenney

09:42 am Feature #2066: Make units optional

A month here and I'm already delegating. Hailee Kenney

09:21 am Feature #14584: Make it easy to silence errors from facts

Feedback from Pieter and Nick F:... Jeff Weiss

03:00 am Bug #10278: some facts do not work with locales set

I ran into the same issue: German (and probably other foreign locales) are breaking facter ifconfig stuff. This patch... Jan Weiher

06/04/2012

09:30 am Feature #13047 (Merged - Pending Release): Support zpool_version on FreeBSD

Hailee Kenney

06/01/2012

03:59 pm Feature #13049 (Merged - Pending Release): Support zfs_version on FreeBSD

Merged with <https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/commit/6bd5bbbbec8748945ead71d476d86b049db263c7> Jeff Weiss

02:59 pm Feature #14783 (Accepted): Figure out how to deal with GNU/kFreeBSD

It's an unholy union of Debian and FreeBSD. How does it fit into Facter? Hailee Kenney

11:03 pm Feature #14584: Make it easy to silence errors from facts

Backwards-compatible default for Facter 2.1.0 is to preserve existing behavior for STDERR, which is to pass along to ... Jeff Weiss

11:00 pm Feature #14584: Make it easy to silence errors from facts

Added related ticket #14776, which will change the default behavior for Facter 3.0.0.
Still need double check w/ U... Jeff Weiss

10:49 pm Refactor #14776 (Accepted): Change default STDERR-squelch behavior

As part of a backward compatible release, the solution for #14584 did not squelch `STDERR` by default, but rather mad... Jeff Weiss

05:29 pm Bug #14710: Facter outputs an error when a script that runs "facter -p" is launched via Cron.

Solved! The puppetmaster's .bashrc was setting a different RUBYLIB path than what the crontab was using. We found t... Brent Hensarling

05/31/2012

04:29 pm Bug #14710: Facter outputs an error when a script that runs "facter -p" is launched via Cron.

Bit of a long shot but could you set your factdir to $vardir/lib/facter instead of what it is now and then move the d... R.I. Pienaar

04:06 pm Bug #14710: Facter outputs an error when a script that runs "facter -p" is launched via Cron.

Yes, we are running the cronjob as root. Here is the output of /etc/puppet/puppet.conf:
[main]
# The Puppet l... Brent Hensarling

03:39 pm Bug #14710: Facter outputs an error when a script that runs "facter -p" is launched via Cron.

are you running this cronjob as root? If yes, please show the contents of /etc/puppet/puppet.conf R.I. Pienaar

02:43 pm Bug #14710: Facter outputs an error when a script that runs "facter -p" is launched via Cron.

Hello,
I ran the test script as you suggested, however, Cron emailed us the exact same error message:
**/var/li... Brent Hensarling