Re: Net::Amazon::EC2 loses pound-shebang when base64'd

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Try passing in the user-data script without base-64 encoding it. It works for me.

I happen to maintain the user-data script running software and the Amazon EC2 Debian AMI you are running. I suppose I could enhance it to try to base-64 decode the user-data if it wasn't in the clear, but I'm not sure that there is any good reason to do so.

-- Eric Hammond

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Re^2: Net::Amazon::EC2 loses pound-shebang when base64'd by esh (Pilgrim) on Oct 06, 2009 at 23:17 UTC
I take back my comment about not base-64 encoding. I just looked at my code and it says: `my $instances = $ec2->run_instances( ImageId => $ami_id, MinCount => 1, MaxCount => 1, KeyName => $key, (defined $user_data ? (UserData => MIME::Base64::encode_base64($user_data)) : ()), (defined $instance_type ? (InstanceType => $instance_type) : ()), #... ) or die "$ec2->{error}";` [download] -- Eric Hammond	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: Net::Amazon::EC2 loses pound-shebang when base64'd
by esh (Pilgrim) on Oct 06, 2009 at 23:17 UTC

  my $instances = $ec2->run_instances(
    ImageId  => $ami_id,
    MinCount => 1,
    MaxCount => 1,
    KeyName  => $key,
    (defined $user_data ?
       (UserData => MIME::Base64::encode_base64($user_data)) : ()),
    (defined $instance_type ?
       (InstanceType => $instance_type) : ()),
  #...
  ) or die "$ec2->{error}";
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