Thanks, Eric for taking a look at this.

I had earlier tried that, when I do this:

my $trick_my_box_script;
my $base_path = '/home/hesco/sandbox/EC2';
my $build_script = 'build_server.sh';
open('USER_DATA','<',"$base_path/$build_script") or die "Unable to ope
+n $base_path/$build_script: $! \n";
while(<USER_DATA>){ $trick_my_box_script .= $_; }
close(USER_DATA);
my $user_data = encode_base64($trick_my_box_script);

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Then I get errors which look like this:

hesco@marcus8:~/sandbox/EC2$ time perl ec2_faxserver.pl
$VAR1 = bless( {
      'errors' => [
         bless( {
      'message' => '500 read failed: Connection reset by peer',
         'code' => 'HTTP POST FAILURE'
                 }, 'Net::Amazon::EC2::Error' )
               ],
  'request_id' => 'N/A'
 }, 'Net::Amazon::EC2::Errors' );

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That shell script is only 7.2k, well within the 16k limit. Any idea why it would be rejected like this?

-- Hugh

if( $lal && $lol ) { $life++; }
if( $insurance->rationing() ) { $people->die(); }

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