Launching a Fedora 16 EC2 Instance

[Pádraig Brady]

On 03/06/2012 02:42 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Pádraig Brady (P at draigBrady.com) said: 
>> On 03/05/2012 06:59 PM, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
>>> On Mar 5, 2012 10:11 AM, "Juan Rodriguez" <nushio at fedoraproject.org <mailto:nushio at fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hey there,
>>>>
>>>> I'm new to Amazon EC2 / Cloud providers in general, but I tried to set up using Fedora's F16 Images (Available here [1]) using ami-5f16d836. It apparently passes all of Amazon's checks, however I can't ping the instance once it's fully set up. I decided to check the System Log and noticed this:
>>>>
>>>> Determining IP information for eth0.../etc/init.d/functions: line 58: /dev/stderr: Permission denied /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 58: /dev/stderr: Permission denied /etc/init.d/functions: line 58: /dev/stderr: Permission denied /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 58: /dev/stderr: Permission denied
>>>
>>> This always happens. I am equally clueless as to what it means, but AFAIK it doesn't break anything.
>>
>> I noticed the above error independently.
>> I logged in as root and changed to another user.
>> In that case /dev/stderr is owned by root and hence not readable.
> 
> How did you change? "su"? "su -"?

Both I think. Let me confirm...

$ ssh root at tp2
# su - padraig
$ ls -lH /dev/stderr
crw--w----. 1 root tty 136, 4 Mar  6 22:35 /dev/stderr
$ exit
# su padraig
$ ls -lH /dev/stderr
crw--w----. 1 root tty 136, 4 Mar  6 22:35 /dev/stderr

Note I don't think the device ownership or permissions have
changed from what was there in previous releases.
Just the `test -r` which doesn't seem to handle all cases.

cheers,
Pádraig.