NAME

       fact-add - wrapper script for adding custom facts to facter

SYNOPSIS

       fact-add FACT [VALUE]

DESCRIPTION

       fact-add is a script that adds new facts with an optional value into facter.

       Note  that  facts  are  stored  in  /etc/facts  where the filename is the new fact and the
       contents of the file is the current value of the fact.

       Facts created by fact-add can be deleted with fact-del.

       The FACT parameters is the new fact to be created.  If a value is needed for the new  fact
       the VALUE parameter is passed as well.

EXIT CODES

       fact-add returns 0 on success and 1 otherwise.

SEE ALSO

       facter(1)
       fact-del(1)

AUTHOR

       This  manpage  and the utility were written by Juan L. Negron <juan@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu
       systems (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted  to  copy,  distribute  and/or
       modify  this  document  and the utility under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
       Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation.

       The complete text of the GNU General Public License can  be  found  in  /usr/share/common-
       licenses/GPL on Debian/Ubuntu systems, or in /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/GPL on Fedora
       systems, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.