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i wanted to automate the ec2 instance’s start & stop and configured the crontab on an instance x. I followed these steps
1) Edited the crontab -e of instance X.
2) and added these lines
15 04 * * * username ec2-start-instances i-f1814c90
15 07 * * * username ec2-stop-instances i-f1814c90
10 10 * * * username ec2-start-instances i-f1814c90
3) and restarted the cron using sudo /etc/init.d/cron restart
But still am unable to either start or stop the ec2 instance using cronjob.
thanks,
Anand
Most likely the issue is that the AWS data need to run the ec2 start and stop commands are not in the cron environment.
Its better to write a separate script that does this, instead of of making the ec2 commands on the cron like that.