I've got some scripts which are intended to run on a new EC2 instance
right after it is created. Since the script needs to install packages it
need to run as root. But because I don't have sudo installed at this
point (it is a brand new instance), I've only got 'su' to get root.
The script its
On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 at 17:33, Aristedes Maniatis via freebsd-stable
wrote:
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> How else can I get this script running as root remotely in a completely
> unattended way?
The way it's usually done is with an rc script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, eg:
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/myscript
and add the entry
That would require root to put the file there and then to reboot the
machine.
Ari
On 19/8/21 4:16pm, Jonathan Chen wrote:
On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 at 17:33, Aristedes Maniatis via freebsd-stable
wrote:
[...]
How else can I get this script running as root remotely in a completely
unattended way?
On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 at 18:25, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
>
> That would require root to put the file there and then to reboot the
> machine.
In which case, wouldn't it be simpler to just start a new instance,
install your packages by hand, and then take a snapshot of the volume
and convert it to a
> That would require root to put the file there and then to reboot the
> machine.
>
> Ari
As these are EC2 instances, you should be able to use user-data provided to
the instance’s configinit (like cloud-init) with firstboot_pkgs_list=“sudo”
similar to Colin’s example here[1], and then run your
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 11:36 PM Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 at 18:25, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> >
> > That would require root to put the file there and then to reboot the
> > machine.
>
> In which case, wouldn't it be simpler to just start a new instance,
> install your package
