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2 scripts that can be used to create an bootable EBS from a running instance. ami-4205e72b created with this process
#!/bin/bash -xe
EBS_DEVICE='/dev/sdh'
INSTANCE_ID=$1
AKI=${2:-'aki-5f15f636'}
ARI=${3:-'ari-0915f660'}
ARCH=${4:-'i386'}
SIZE=${5:-10}
AZ=${6:-'us-east-1d'}
NAME=${7:-"ami-from-$INSTANCE_ID"}
DESCRIPTION=${8:-''}
VOL_ID=`ec2-create-volume --size $SIZE -z $AZ |cut -f2|grep vol`
echo $VOL_ID
#sample output => VOLUME vol-0500xxx 10 us-east-1d creating 2009-12-05T08:07:51+0000
ec2-attach-volume $VOL_ID -i $INSTANCE_ID -d $EBS_DEVICE
#sample output => ATTACHMENT vol-0500fxxx i-c72f6aaf /dev/sdh attaching 2009-12-05T08:14:17+0000
echo "run the server side script on $INSTANCE_ID, and click enter when done:"
read waiting
ec2-detach-volume $VOL_ID
#sample output => ATTACHMENT vol-0500fb6c i-c72f 6aaf /dev/sdh detaching 2009-12-05T08:14:17+0000
SNAP=`ec2-create-snapshot $VOL_ID|cut -f2|grep snap`
echo $SNAP
#sample output => SNAPSHOT snap-415b3xxx vol-0500xxx pending 2009-12-05T09:04:27+0000 424024621003 10 Ubuntu 9.10 base 32bit server image
ec2-register --snapshot $SNAP --kernel $AKI --ramdisk $ARI --description="$DESCRIPTION" --name="$NAME" --architecture $ARCH --root-device-name /dev/sda1
#sample output => IMAGE ami-5007exxx
#!/bin/bash
# Run this script on the instance to be bundled
# tested with Canonical Ubuntu 9.10 base ami
EBS_DEVICE=${1:-'/dev/sdh'}
IMAGE_DIR=${2:-'/mnt/tmp'}
EBS_MOUNT_POINT=${3:-'/mnt/ebs'}
mkdir -p $EBS_MOUNT_POINT
mkfs.ext3 ${EBS_DEVICE}
mount ${EBS_DEVICE} $EBS_MOUNT_POINT
# make a local working copy
mkdir -p $IMAGE_DIR
rsync --stats -av --exclude /root/.bash_history --exclude /home/*/.bash_history --exclude /etc/ssh/ssh_host_* --exclude /etc/ssh/moduli --exclude /etc/udev/rules.d/*persistent-net.rules --exclude /var/lib/ec2/* --exclude=/mnt/* --exclude=/proc/* --exclude=/tmp/* / $IMAGE_DIR
#ensure that ami init scripts will be run
chmod u+x $IMAGE_DIR/etc/init.d/ec2-init-user-data
#clear out log files
cd $IMAGE_DIR/var/log
for i in `ls ./**/*`; do
echo $i && echo -n> $i
done
cd $IMAGE_DIR
tar -cSf - -C ./ . | tar xvf - -C $EBS_MOUNT_POINT
#NOTE, You could rsync / directly to EBS_MOUNT_POINT, but this tar trickery saves some space in the snapshot
umount $EBS_MOUNT_POINT
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I am looking for to execute the shell script through ssh. Getting error as File not found: ''

  1. $ssh -i key.pem root@ -C "sh /root/myScript.sh"
    Output: File not found: ''

  2. $ssh -i key.pem root@ -C "/bin/sh ec2-create-volume --size 10 --availability-zone us-east-1a"
    Output: File not found: ''

Note:

  1. I have read write permission to my remote machine script myScript.sh
  2. I can able to manually execute the command "ec2-create-volume --size 10 --availability-zone us-east-1a" successfully
    If i want to execute the same with ssh via script, how i should procede. Please help me on this.

What may be the issues ?

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