Try it without the 'y' flag. It's possible that this will produce something too big to pass as a user-data file; but if it's small enough this would be a useful indication of where the problem lies.
Colin Percival On 3/11/19 12:24 PM, Rafal Lukawiecki wrote: > 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 > > > -- 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]"
