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  • Committer: Package Import Robot
  • Author(s): Adam Gandelman
  • Date: 2011-10-18 10:32:42 UTC
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Facter
 
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This package is largely meant to be a library for collecting facts about your
 
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system.  These facts are mostly strings (i.e., not numbers), and are things
 
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like the output of `uname`, public ssh and cfengine keys, the number of
 
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processors, etc.
 
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See `bin/facter` for an example of the interface.
 
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Running Facter
 
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Run the `facter` binary on the command for a full list of facts supported on your host.
 
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Adding your own facts
 
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See the [Adding Facts](http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_facts.html) page for details of how to add your own custom facts to Facter.
 
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Further Information
 
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See http://www.puppetlabs.com/puppet/related-projects/facter for more details.