Inspecting configuration settings
Pop quiz, hotshot!. You already know that Puppet's configuration settings are stored in puppet.conf, but any parameter not mentioned in that file will take a default value. How can you see the value of any configuration parameter, regardless of whether or not it's explicitly set in puppet.conf? The answer is to use Puppet's --genconfig switch.
How to do it…
Run the following command:
# puppet --genconfig
How it works…
This will output every configuration parameter and its value (and there are lots of them). It does, however, include helpful comments explaining what each parameter does.
To find the specific value you're interested in, you can use grep in the following manner:
# puppet --genconfig |grep "reportdir =" ...Get Puppet 2.7 Cookbook now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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