My deployments fail on last step Validate Service with error message:
The overall deployment failed because too many individual instances failed deployment, too few healthy instances are available for deployment, or some instances in your deployment group are experiencing problems.
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My validate_service.sh contain
#!/bin/bash
# verify we can access our webpage successfully
curl -v --silent localhost:80 2>&1 | grep Welcome
Can someone advice what should I change ?
Script return value matters. Yours looks good to me. I just added couple of seconds to wait until application starts up.
In case you use bash -x together with pipeline of commands, you better add shopt -s pipefail so all pipeline fails when one of the commands fails.
Checkout my script:
#!/bin/bash
sleep 5
curl http://localhost:3009 | grep Welcome
I have a script running in an open terminal window:
while sleep 345600; \
do pass="$(security find-generic-password -w -s 'service' -a 'account')"; \
sudo --stdin <<< "${pass}" head /etc/hosts; \
done
When for a test I manually run this script having set sleep to 1, it works as intended, sudo getting the pass without user's interaction. When I then run the script with the 4 days delay, it does not run the same say in a specified time, sudo waiting for the password from a user's terminal (i.e. typed manually!). I can even set the pass variable to contain the actual plain-text password, of no avail.
Why this difference?
It's probably safer to add the particular command you need to the sudoers config and allow it to be run without a password (see https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/398656 for an example of this on macOS).
If that's not an option, you can try using the --askpass option: it takes the path to a command that will output the user's password on stdout when called. Put the find-generic-password command in a helper script and pass that to --askpass.
I have a long list of remote hosts and I want to run a shell command on all of them. The command takes a very long time, so I want to run the command inside screen on the remote machine, disconnecting immediately from each, and I want the terminal output on the remote to be preserved after the command exits. There is a "tag" that should be supplied to each command as an argument. I tried to do this with parallel, something like this:
$ cat servers.txt
user1#server1.example.com/tag1
user2#server2.example.com/tag2
# ...
$ cat run.sh
grep -v '^#' servers.txt |
parallel ssh -tt '{//}' \
'tag={/}; exec screen slow_command --option1 --option2 $tag other args'
This doesn't work: all of the remote processes are launched, but they are not detached (so the ssh sessions remain live and I don't get my local shell back), and once each command finishes, its screen exits immediately and the output is lost.
How do I fix this script? Note: if this is easier to do with tmux and/or some other marshalling program besides parallel, I'm happy to hear answers that explain how to do it that way.
Something like this:
grep -v '^#' servers.txt |
parallel -q --colsep / ssh {1} "screen -d -m bash -c 'echo do stuff \"{2}\";sleep 1000000'"
The final sleep makes sure the screen does not die. You will have 1000000 seconds to attach to it and kill it.
There is an awful lot of quoting there - especially if do stuff is complex.
It may be easier to make a function that computes tag on the remote machine. You need GNU Parallel 20200522 for this:
env_parallel --session
f() {
sshlogin="$1"
# TODO given $sshlogin compute $tag (e.g. a table lookup)
do_stuff() {
echo "do stuff $tag"
sleep 1000000
}
export -f do_stuff
screen -d -m bash -c do_stuff "$#"
}
env_parallel --nonall --slf servers_without_tag f '$PARALLEL_SSHLOGIN'
env_parallel --endsession
I am using ipmitool to get remote console output with SOL. This gets called from within a background process. When I call it in the foreground, it correctly logs the console output to the log file. But when called in the background, ipmitool doesn't work. Any idea why ?
ipmitool write the SOL data on the standout output(stdout) file descriptor. When called in background, ipmitool can't write to stdout because of which you are not seeing console logs.
If you want to run it as a background process, then redirect the stdout to a file and tail that file.
I had this issue. Solution of redirecting stdout was not enough.
This ended up working:
tail -f /dev/null --pid="$$" \
| ipmitool -H "$ip" -U "$username" -P "$password" -I lanplus sol activate \
2>> stderr.txt >> stdout.txt &
Idea of using tail -f /dev/null came form this answer. There are a few other solutions listed there, but I didn't try them.
--pid="$$" means this process will get killed when parent process gets killed, which is what I wanted, but may or may not fit your needs. You will probably need some mechanism for avoiding tail -f zombies.
I have a problem with the nohup command.
When I run my job, I have a lot of data. The output nohup.out becomes too large and my process slows down. How can I run this command without getting nohup.out?
The nohup command only writes to nohup.out if the output would otherwise go to the terminal. If you have redirected the output of the command somewhere else - including /dev/null - that's where it goes instead.
nohup command >/dev/null 2>&1 # doesn't create nohup.out
Note that the >/dev/null 2>&1 sequence can be abbreviated to just >&/dev/null in most (but not all) shells.
If you're using nohup, that probably means you want to run the command in the background by putting another & on the end of the whole thing:
nohup command >/dev/null 2>&1 & # runs in background, still doesn't create nohup.out
On Linux, running a job with nohup automatically closes its input as well. On other systems, notably BSD and macOS, that is not the case, so when running in the background, you might want to close input manually. While closing input has no effect on the creation or not of nohup.out, it avoids another problem: if a background process tries to read anything from standard input, it will pause, waiting for you to bring it back to the foreground and type something. So the extra-safe version looks like this:
nohup command </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 & # completely detached from terminal
Note, however, that this does not prevent the command from accessing the terminal directly, nor does it remove it from your shell's process group. If you want to do the latter, and you are running bash, ksh, or zsh, you can do so by running disown with no argument as the next command. That will mean the background process is no longer associated with a shell "job" and will not have any signals forwarded to it from the shell. (A disowned process gets no signals forwarded to it automatically by its parent shell - but without nohup, it will still receive a HUP signal sent via other means, such as a manual kill command. A nohup'ed process ignores any and all HUP signals, no matter how they are sent.)
Explanation:
In Unixy systems, every source of input or target of output has a number associated with it called a "file descriptor", or "fd" for short. Every running program ("process") has its own set of these, and when a new process starts up it has three of them already open: "standard input", which is fd 0, is open for the process to read from, while "standard output" (fd 1) and "standard error" (fd 2) are open for it to write to. If you just run a command in a terminal window, then by default, anything you type goes to its standard input, while both its standard output and standard error get sent to that window.
But you can ask the shell to change where any or all of those file descriptors point before launching the command; that's what the redirection (<, <<, >, >>) and pipe (|) operators do.
The pipe is the simplest of these... command1 | command2 arranges for the standard output of command1 to feed directly into the standard input of command2. This is a very handy arrangement that has led to a particular design pattern in UNIX tools (and explains the existence of standard error, which allows a program to send messages to the user even though its output is going into the next program in the pipeline). But you can only pipe standard output to standard input; you can't send any other file descriptors to a pipe without some juggling.
The redirection operators are friendlier in that they let you specify which file descriptor to redirect. So 0<infile reads standard input from the file named infile, while 2>>logfile appends standard error to the end of the file named logfile. If you don't specify a number, then input redirection defaults to fd 0 (< is the same as 0<), while output redirection defaults to fd 1 (> is the same as 1>).
Also, you can combine file descriptors together: 2>&1 means "send standard error wherever standard output is going". That means that you get a single stream of output that includes both standard out and standard error intermixed with no way to separate them anymore, but it also means that you can include standard error in a pipe.
So the sequence >/dev/null 2>&1 means "send standard output to /dev/null" (which is a special device that just throws away whatever you write to it) "and then send standard error to wherever standard output is going" (which we just made sure was /dev/null). Basically, "throw away whatever this command writes to either file descriptor".
When nohup detects that neither its standard error nor output is attached to a terminal, it doesn't bother to create nohup.out, but assumes that the output is already redirected where the user wants it to go.
The /dev/null device works for input, too; if you run a command with </dev/null, then any attempt by that command to read from standard input will instantly encounter end-of-file. Note that the merge syntax won't have the same effect here; it only works to point a file descriptor to another one that's open in the same direction (input or output). The shell will let you do >/dev/null <&1, but that winds up creating a process with an input file descriptor open on an output stream, so instead of just hitting end-of-file, any read attempt will trigger a fatal "invalid file descriptor" error.
nohup some_command > /dev/null 2>&1&
That's all you need to do!
Have you tried redirecting all three I/O streams:
nohup ./yourprogram > foo.out 2> foo.err < /dev/null &
You might want to use the detach program. You use it like nohup but it doesn't produce an output log unless you tell it to. Here is the man page:
NAME
detach - run a command after detaching from the terminal
SYNOPSIS
detach [options] [--] command [args]
Forks a new process, detaches is from the terminal, and executes com‐
mand with the specified arguments.
OPTIONS
detach recognizes a couple of options, which are discussed below. The
special option -- is used to signal that the rest of the arguments are
the command and args to be passed to it.
-e file
Connect file to the standard error of the command.
-f Run in the foreground (do not fork).
-i file
Connect file to the standard input of the command.
-o file
Connect file to the standard output of the command.
-p file
Write the pid of the detached process to file.
EXAMPLE
detach xterm
Start an xterm that will not be closed when the current shell exits.
AUTHOR
detach was written by Robbert Haarman. See http://inglorion.net/ for
contact information.
Note I have no affiliation with the author of the program. I'm only a satisfied user of the program.
Following command will let you run something in the background without getting nohup.out:
nohup command |tee &
In this way, you will be able to get console output while running script on the remote server:
sudo bash -c "nohup /opt/viptel/viptel_bin/log.sh $* &> /dev/null" &
Redirecting the output of sudo causes sudo to reask for the password, thus an awkward mechanism is needed to do this variant.
If you have a BASH shell on your mac/linux in-front of you, you try out the below steps to understand the redirection practically :
Create a 2 line script called zz.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo "Hello. This is a proper command"
junk_errorcommand
The echo command's output goes into STDOUT filestream (file descriptor 1).
The error command's output goes into STDERR filestream (file descriptor 2)
Currently, simply executing the script sends both STDOUT and STDERR to the screen.
./zz.sh
Now start with the standard redirection :
zz.sh > zfile.txt
In the above, "echo" (STDOUT) goes into the zfile.txt. Whereas "error" (STDERR) is displayed on the screen.
The above is the same as :
zz.sh 1> zfile.txt
Now you can try the opposite, and redirect "error" STDERR into the file. The STDOUT from "echo" command goes to the screen.
zz.sh 2> zfile.txt
Combining the above two, you get:
zz.sh 1> zfile.txt 2>&1
Explanation:
FIRST, send STDOUT 1 to zfile.txt
THEN, send STDERR 2 to STDOUT 1 itself (by using &1 pointer).
Therefore, both 1 and 2 goes into the same file (zfile.txt)
Eventually, you can pack the whole thing inside nohup command & to run it in the background:
nohup zz.sh 1> zfile.txt 2>&1&
You can run the below command.
nohup <your command> & > <outputfile> 2>&1 &
e.g.
I have a nohup command inside script
./Runjob.sh > sparkConcuurent.out 2>&1