ec2-get-console-output instance_id [-r]
Retrieves the console output that was displayed during startup for specified
instance, if available, and displays it to stdout.
In addition to standard startup information, this includes the SSH host key fingerprints which you can use to verify the host to which you are connecting.
| Option | Description | Required |
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Instance identifier generated when the instance launched. Example: |
Yes |
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Raw output. Do not escape the output to facilitate reading. |
No |
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A timestamp indicating the time of the last update.
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The instance console output. By default the
^ESCcharacter is escaped and duplicate new-lines are removed to facilitate reading.
Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.
This example retrieves the console output for the
i-10a64379 instance.
$ec2-get-console-output i-10a643792007-01-03 12:00:00 Linux version 2.6.16-xenU ([email protected]) (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. ... ec2: -----BEGIN SSH HOST KEY FINGERPRINTS----- ec2: 2048 bc:89:29:c6:45:4b:b3:e2:c1:41:81:22:cb:3c:77:54 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub ec2: 2048 fc:8d:0c:eb:0e:a6:4a:6a:61:50:00:c4:d2:51:78:66 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub ec2: 1024 b5:cd:88:6a:18:7f:83:9d:1f:3b:80:03:10:17:7b:f5 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub ec2: -----END SSH HOST KEY FINGERPRINTS----- Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) Kernel 2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen on an i686