[ec2-beta] Setting Up Snapshotting - Java

[Micah Walter]

James,
Thanks so much for your help last night. After adding that line to  
the /etc/apt/sources.list and running your script Java installed just  
fine.

I then moved on to setting up the script to do the automatic snap- 
shotting. To do this I created two scripts, one of which is eric  
hammonds script which takes care of flushing the DB and all of that.  
The second script basically exports all those environment variables  
and then calls eric's script. If I run this as the ubuntu user it  
works just fine. However when I set this up as a cron job using  
crontab -e it only runs the first script.

So I am guessing I am not calling eric's script correctly or perhaps I  
have a permissions issue or something. I did try doing a sudo crontab - 
e instead, but got the same result...

any ideas? could this be a permissions issue?

-m




On Apr 15, 2009, at 8:34 PM, James Mayes wrote:

> On Apr 15, 2009, at 7:24 PM, Micah Walter wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to set up automatic snapshotting on my ubuntu ec2  
>> instance.
>> I have most of it set up correctly... I think..
>>
>> I installed the EC2 API tools in to a folder on my ubuntu account
>> called /home/ubuntu/ec2/api-tools
>>
>> I also copied the binaries to /usr/local/bin
>>
>> I did the export EC2_HOME, and other exports, but I appears I need to
>> install Java. I haven't been able to figure out how to do this
>> properly. Everything points to adding the "multiverse" to my /etc/ 
>> apt/
>> sources.list file, but I'm not sure what to add for this AMI...
>>
>> Once I do that I just need to add the export JAVA_HOME line and it
>> should work... I hope...
>>
>> anyway, any info on this would make my day!
>>
>> thanks,
>> Micah
>>
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>
>
> Hello Micah,
>
> Here is the script that I use.  I obtained it from either this  
> mailing list or the ec2ubuntu list.  My apologies (and thanks!) to  
> whomever created it.  It is for unattended installation of the  
> official Sun Java distribution (full SDK, not just the JRE).  Note  
> that you can perform this interactively by just issuing "apt-get  
> install sun-java6-jdk"   You can also install the OpenJDK (assuming  
> everything that you need is implemented there as expected).  Google  
> around if interested.
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "# ==========="
> echo "# Sun Java 6"
> echo "# ==========="
> apt-get -y install debconf-utils
> echo 'sun-java6-bin   shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1    boolean true
> sun-java6-jdk   shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1    boolean true
> sun-java6-jre   shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1    boolean true
> sun-java6-jre   sun-java6-jre/stopthread        boolean true
> sun-java6-jre   sun-java6-jre/jcepolicy note
> sun-java6-bin   shared/present-sun-dlj-v1-1     note
> sun-java6-jdk   shared/present-sun-dlj-v1-1     note
> sun-java6-jre   shared/present-sun-dlj-v1-1     note
> '|debconf-set-selections
> export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
> apt-get -y install sun-java6-jdk
>
>
>