I think this gives a little weight to this ticket for Facter then: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/1346
Although - I don't see a 9 char limitation on Debian Wheezy. Not sure where that patch came from though. I wonder how many other distros suffer from this. Of slightly related interest - I do see a 15 character limit when using 'brctl addbr somelongnamefoo' to create a named interface - and that seems to exist for both ifconfig and ip addr when reading the interfaces. So I'm guessing 15 chars is the kernel limit or perhaps brctl limit :-). ken. On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Alex L. Demidov <alexeydemi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 06:24:40PM +0100, Ken Barber wrote: >> Hi Alex, >> >> What happens when you run 'ip addr list' instead? > > It shows interface names properly and not truncated. > >> >> ken. >> >> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Alex L. Demidov >> <alexeydemi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I have Gentoo host where `ifconfig -a` prints long interface names >> > truncated to 9 chars (there is closed bug report [1]). >> > >> > Unfortunately, `facter` uses `ifconfig -a` output to get list of >> > interface names and because of truncation it generates `interfaces` >> > fact with incorrect interface names. Also it fails to retrieve >> > individual interface information with following message for >> > each interface with name "myinterface": >> > >> > Device "myinterfa" does not exist. >> > myinterfa: error fetching interface information: Device not found >> > >> > [1]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179920 > > -- > Alex L. Demidov (ALD9-RIPE). > http://alexeydemidov.com/ > Freelance Consulting. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
