Installing on Amazon EC2, documentation request
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#24 Installing on Amazon EC2, documentation request
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closed
wontfix
ddclient
minor
3.8.0
enhancement
2011-01-24
2011-01-20
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I have just installed ddclient on an EC instance of Ubuntu 10, using the documentation on dyndns.org and in the package.
I recommend an example code block speifically for EC2 in sample-etc_ddclient.conf.
I used code from
http://blog.codesta.com/codesta_weblog/2008/02/amazon-ec2---wh.html
which I tested in incremental blocks. I had to use all of the lines; the obvious alternatives didn't seem to work.
Also the README file, doesn't talk about needing to
mkdir /var/cache/ddclient
it's easy enough to do and the error message is very clear, but given the instructions already in place,it's only one extra line of documentation.
Discussion
I don't know which README you were reading but it is on lin 55.
Btw, why didn't you used the default ubuntu package. It has everything you need.
I downloaded version 3.7.3 from dyndns.org. Line 55 of ./ddclient-3.7.3/README is vi /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf/mkdir . Is this different for V 3.8?
I didn't use the package because I didn't know it had been packaged, not good I know. However, I have tested package installer twice, once on my amazon AMI and once on a local ubuntu virtual machine. The Ubuntu package is version 3.8.0-*. It differs depending on which machine issues the call. It creates the cache directory and a .conf, so that's all good.
It doesn't offer you the option of configuring it as an amazon host.
I'd ask that you reconsider my suggestion of creating a sample code block for aws ec2 machines in the sample configuration files. This would help the packagers offer this to their consumers.
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Sorry but there are to many hacks out to use ddclient with specific providers. Since I don't have enough time to maintain the core of ddclient, there really is no space for special hacks. Your suggestion can be found using the search function.