aaronmweiss
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DOCTL "Access Token is Required" even after initializing
Adding doctl auth init to the script the first go around worked perfectly. -
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DOCTL "Access Token is Required" even after initializing
Just installed DOCTL on my Raspberry Pi. I have performed doctl auth ini and verified my API Token. Yet, when I run my script, I get the following: Error: unable to initialize DigitalOcean api client: access token is...Accepted Answer: Hi there @aaronmweiss, It sounds like that your script might be running as a different user, for example you've authenticated as your default pi user but the script is executed as the root user. I would recommend addi... -
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Snapshot List outputs in file and email as single line
I'm looking to develop a script where the Snapshot list is emailed to someone. When I run doctl compute droplet snapshots $dropletid, I get the following: ID Name Type ... -
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DOCTL While Loop Not Working in CRON
When I run the following manually via the command line, it work beautifully. However, when I run this same script via sudo crontab, it just deletes everything. What could I be doing wrong: Assumption: There are 10 sn...Accepted Answer: Hello, Have you allowed the sudo /snap/bin/doctl command to be executed without a password? You could do that by editing your sudoers file with the visudo command and adding something like: <^>your_user<^> host = (ro... -
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Paid Snapshots & Batch removing snapshots
The for loop asb was helpful for my needs. -
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Progress Indicator for DOCTL Commands
I'm building a script that automatically will shutdown a droplet before it creates a snapshot, and then powers it back on. The snapshot takes time to complete, but I think it would be great to see progress indicator. ...Accepted Answer: When scripting with doctl you can pass the --wait flag to Droplet "action" commands in order to block until the action has completed. For example: doctl compute droplet-action power-off --wait <^><droplet-id><^> Unf...