I'm trying to get a amazon ec2 instance to automatically reboot each 2 hours, and after run a shell (.sh) script on startup. Any ideas?
For rebooting after 2 hours, if it is Ubuntu (or Debian based distro) just put on root's cron (by entering sudo crontab -e):
* */2 * * * /sbin/shutdown -r now
I am very curious as to why you need to reboot every 2 hours... I hope this is not a production server... but you could run a cronjob to do the rebooting, what type of instance do you have, is it linux or windows?
I have a centos instance and I have modified /etc/rc.d/rc.local to run a script after booting up but then again you could easily run a script via cronjob to check whether something is running or not...
I guess we need more information from you as to what you are trying to do and what type of instance you have.
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I am using user-data of ec2 instance to power up my auto scale instances and run the application. I am running node js application.
But it is not working properly. I have debugged and checked the instance cloud monitor output. So it says
pm2 command not found
After reading and investigating a lot I have found that the path for the command as root is not there.
As EC2 user-data when it tries to run it finds the path
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
After ssh as ec2-user it is
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/ec2-user/.local/bin:/home/ec2-user/bin
After ssh as sudo su it is
/root/.nvm/versions/node/v10.15.3/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
It works only for the last path.
So what is the way or script to run the command as root during launch of the instance provided by user-data?
All thought to start your application with userdata is not recommended, because as per AWS documentation they are not assuring that instance will only come up after successful execution of user data. Even if user data failed it will spin up your instance.
For your problem, I assume if you give the complete absolute path of the binary, It will work.
/root/.nvm/versions/node/v10.15.3/bin/pm2
Better solution for this approach, create a service file for your application startup and start application with systemd or service.
I have installed Jenkins on my local, I have created my own EC2 instance, I can ssh into my instance and run some shell scripts to shut down my Wildfly server installed on my instance.
This is what I do when I do it manually on my Mac.
open my mac terminal, type
ssh -i /Users/xxx/tools/xxxx.pem ubuntu#10.206.xxx.xx
It will login to my Instance, and then I type:
cd /srv/wildfly-10.1.0.Final/bin
sudo -s
source /etc/profile
./jboss-cli.sh --connect command=:shutdown
The screen will output
{"outcome" => "success"}
Now, I want to using Jenkins, when I click build button, it will ssh into that instance and run these shell scripts for me. The output is expected the same as I run it after I ssh into the instance.
My question is: what steps should I follow, after I login to my Jenkins local environment: localhost:8080
Create a New Item, which one? Is there some plugin I can use? Where to put my shell scripts, will it run successfully?
A guide would be helpful, thanks a lot!
Additon:
when I try to login: using my ssh command, I get this error:
Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal.
Host key verification failed.
Too many questions to answer in one post. but this should get you started.
ssh from jenkins to your ec2 should be password less, should you need to set the keys in jenkins. use the credential manager and create one, by pasting the private key
https://www.cloudbees.com/blog/using-ssh-jenkins
Refer remote command execution over ssh for the rest of the task.
you will find how to do this in tons.. but this should give you an idea. https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-execute-command-using-ssh/
For the question on job type, at this point just go with the freestyle .. And later, you may plan for fancy stuff.
You need to add the PEM file details in place where it asks for Private Key
I have an Amazon EC2 instance running my website. I need to setup a Cron Job to run my file every 12hours.
if file setup via command line so please give a detail step wise.
Does anyone have any advise?
Thanks for your time.
I recently began using Amazon's linux distro on ec2 instances and after trying all kinds of things for cron all I needed was:
sudo service crond start
crontab -e
This allowed me to set a cron job as "ec2-user" without specifying the user. For example:
0 12 * * * python3 example.py
In fact, specifying a user here prevented it from running. I also posted this here.
It's just normal cron.
See: HowTo: Add Jobs To cron Under Linux or UNIX?
i wanted to automate the ec2 instance's start & stop and configured the crontab on an instance x. I followed these steps
1) Edited the crontab -e of instance X.
2) and added these lines
15 04 * * * username ec2-start-instances i-f1814c90
15 07 * * * username ec2-stop-instances i-f1814c90
10 10 * * * username ec2-start-instances i-f1814c90
3) and restarted the cron using sudo /etc/init.d/cron restart
But still am unable to either start or stop the ec2 instance using cronjob.
thanks,
Anand
Most likely the issue is that the AWS data need to run the ec2 start and stop commands are not in the cron environment.
Its better to write a separate script that does this, instead of of making the ec2 commands on the cron like that.
This is why AWS Data Pipeline is for (working fine):
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/stop-start-ec2-instances/
Just mind the trap: --region eu-west-1 NOT --region eu-west-1a (which is an availability zone).
I'd suggest to Schedule EC2 Start / Stop using AWS Lambda
You don't need anything more than a small script or two that you schedule. No instance to launch, just a quick invocation of the script you have built. Pick the programming language of your choice and use the AWS SDK to perform instance operations. A quite lightweight solution,.
I have installed XAMPP server on my Mac OS, how to setup a cron job on it?
My requirement is that i want to call a php script at regular intervals .
Thanks
there is a good article here how to setup cron job on Mac OS X
you would have to edit a textfile(crontabtaskfile)and add for example
0 */1 * * * php path/to/yourphp.php
this would give you a task running every hour (1:00, 2:00) .
and use crontab crontabtaskfile
Cronnix
http://code.google.com/p/cronnix/
or the command line for editing cron tabs.