If you just return a string, then that's how it's interpreted even if it
matches a keyword. To return a datatype, you'd need to return json.
echo '{"gdm_installed": true}'
and
echo '{"gdm_installed": false}'
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:55 PM 'Prentice Bisbal' via Puppet Users <
puppet-users@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to use bash to create custom facts that are booleans,
> Unfortunately, when I do, the values are interpreted as strings, and not
> booleans. For example, here is my bash script, gdm.sh:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
>
> rpm --quiet -q gdm
> retval=$?
> if [ $retval -eq 0 ]; then
> echo gdm_installed=true
> else
> echo gdm_installed=false
> fi
>
> When I run the script, I get output in the following format, depending
> on whether or not the gdm package is installed on the node:
>
> gdm_installed=true
> gdm_installed=false
>
> From everything I've read online, that should be sufficient, but when I
> run 'puppet facts, I see that the values for gdm_installed are strings
> and not booleans. For example:
>
> # puppet facts | grep false
> "fips_enabled": false,
> "gdm_installed": "false",
> "clientnoop": false
>
>
> What am I doing wrong here? Is there something special about bash that
> prevents it from being used like this?
>
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