* noob-puppeteer <rahul.pilani at gmail.com> [2010/07/01 18:00]:
> I must be missing something with how puppet.conf works.
>
> I have configured puppet.conf like so:
> [main]
> vardir = /var/xyz/puppet
>
> I have a very simple site.pp
>
> file { "$vardir/touch":
> ensure => present,
> }
>
> I am running puppet 0.25.5, and have the puppetmasterd and puppetd on
> the same server. When I start the puppetd client, it gets an empty
> $vardir, and tries to create /touch instead of /var/xyz/puppet/touch.
>
> What am I missing?
Facter doesn't make puppet configuration variables available in your
manifests, so you can't reference $vardir, $confdir, and so on
unless you write custom facts to make them available.
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