Amazon EC2- user-data through the AWS console doesn't work

Question

From the Amazon EC2 console (or even if I do it through API tools on a box using a file), I paste:

#!/bin/bash -ex

# tell the world what we've done!
echo 'thisisthetoken' > /home/ec2-user/testuserdata

Into the user-data text box. When the instance boots (the Amazon Linux AMI), the file is not in the directory. Am I missing something so basic?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 25 '11 at 03:31

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I'm sure that's newest AMI from Amazon. You can also test Ubuntu AMI from www.alestic.com.

/var/log/messages or /etc/log/syslog logs user-data executions.

answered Feb 25 '11 at 03:31

Rodney Quillo

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 28 '11 at 23:12

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There was a bug in the original AMI; the current Amazon Linux AMI's work with the same user-data script.

answered Feb 28 '11 at 23:12

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 28 '11 at 10:54

0

your AMI should support user-data (most alestic.com images do)

answered Feb 28 '11 at 10:54

Ryan Fernandes

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