This package is largely meant to be a library for collecting facts about your
system. These facts are mostly strings (i.e., not numbers), and are things
like the output of uname
, public ssh and cfengine keys, the number of
processors, etc.
See bin/facter
for an example of the interface.
Run the facter
binary on the command for a full list of facts supported on your host.
See the Adding Facts page for details of how to add your own custom facts to Facter.
See http://www.puppetlabs.com/puppet/related-projects/facter for more details.