I have been using “tar cvyf fff ddd”, which I think is a compressed tarball using bzip. Should I use something else?
I have also noticed odd behaviour in the Console for LCs, but different behaviour in the Console for LCs, and yet different for CLI… Thank you, Colin. Rafal > On 11 Mar 2019, at 19:21, Colin Percival <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 3/11/19 2:42 AM, Rafal Lukawiecki wrote: >> I hope someone can explain, as I have been lost in this for over a week. I >> would like to pass a small (4-5kB) tarball of files for the built-in cloud >> init script of the official FreeBSD 12.0 EC2 AMI to get untarred and >> processed (>, >>, or #!) upon instance launch. I have successfully done it >> for over 2 years using Launch Configurations but I cannot make it work using >> the new Launch Templates. > > Is this a tarball, or a compressed tarball? > > There's a longstanding bug (which I'm told is going to get fixed eventually!) > in the AWS Console whereby any non-7-bit-clean user-data files get mangled > and come out with each byte UTF-8 encoded. I was only aware of this as an > issue with the Console but it's entirely possible that someone at Amazon wrote > the same bug in multiple places. > > -- > Colin Percival > Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve > Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-cloud To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
