By fastest963
On Google/EC2 I run a bash script to setup a server and after reading https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-droplet-metadata it seems like I can do that on DigitalOcean too.
I’m running into an issue though where the script isn’t running however and I can’t find where the logs are. On Google/EC2 they’re in /var/log/messages on CentOS but I couldn’t find anything in there on DO and the install.log files in /root/ don’t have anything about the script either.
The user-data I’m trying to run is:
#!/bin/bash
curl {script url} | sh
If I log into the box and run that curl/pipe it works fine. I’m using the Control Panel to create the droplet. Is there something I’m missing? Thanks!
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Even I am unable to run the script. I am using API V2
{ “name”: “example.com”, “region”: “nyc3”, “size”: “s-1vcpu-1gb”, “image”: “ubuntu-16-04-x64”, “ssh_keys”: null, “backups”: false, “ipv6”: false, “user_data”: “#cloud-config runcmd: - curl <URL> | sh”, “private_networking”: null, “volumes”: null, “tags”: [ “web” ] }
Please help me regarding what am I doing wrong here?
Sorry to bring an old post up, but I’m having the same issue with a new Centos 7 droplet. This user script - https://github.com/digitalocean/do_user_scripts/blob/master/CentOS-7/web-servers/lamp.yml - won’t get excecuted on droplet creation.
That didn’t run it either :( I also looked in /var/log/messages and still didn’t see anything there referencing that it ever ran this script. I also looked through other logs in /var/log/ and didn’t see anything about it either. Is there another spot where the output goes when this is run?
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