AWS EC2 can't execute user-data script
- by Bloodnut
I'm pretty new to AWS and EC2 but I want to run instances with a user script after it's booted from another instance. I have installed ec2 tools and ran the command as it's explained in various examples like here http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/ec2-userdata and Eric Hammond's tutorials. however when I actually use the command:
"ec2-run-instances --key my-key --user-data-file myscript my-ami"
it only runs the new instance but doesn't execute the script
myscript contains:
#!/bin/bash
echo "hello" ~/output.txt
I'm running ubuntu server 12.04 AMIs. the target AMIs are duplicates of the initiating instance.
if I run curl http:// 169.254.169.254/latest/user-data the imported script is there.
