ec2-get-console-output

From Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud: 2007-08-29

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ec2-get-console-output

Syntax

ec2-get-console-output instance_id [-r]

Description

Retrieves the console output for specified instance, if available, and displays it to stdout.

Options

Option Description Required

Option	Description	Required
`instance_id`	Instance identifier generated when the instance lauched. Example: `i-10a64379`	Yes
`-r`	Raw output. Do not escape the output to facilitate reading.	No

instance_id

Instance identifier generated when the instance lauched.

Example: i-10a64379

Yes

-r

Raw output. Do not escape the output to facilitate reading.

Output

A timestamp indicating the time of the last update.
The instance console output. By default the ^ESC character is escaped and duplicate new-lines are removed to facilitate reading.

Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.

Example

This example retrieves the console output for the i-10a64379 instance

$ ec2-get-console-output  i-10a64379
2007-01-03 12:00:00
Linux version 2.6.16-xenU (builder@patchbat.amazonsa) (gcc version 4.0.1 20050727 (Red Hat 4.0.1-5)) #1 SMP Thu Oct 26 08:41:26 SAST 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Xen: 0000000000000000 - 000000006a400000 (usable)
980MB HIGHMEM available.
727MB LOWMEM available.
NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
IRQ lockup detection disabled
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 ro 4
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.

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