Learn how to record Linux sessions using script command. This will help to keep a record of your commands and their outputs printed on the terminal at the time of execution.
Record your Linux session using ‘script’ command
In our last article we saw how to save PuTTY session output in a file on your desktop. In this article we will learn how to record session output in a file on the Linux server itself. And yes, it’s recording. It can be replayed later at any time and view commands being run and output being shown as it was done in real-time at the time of recording.
There are two utilities used for this task. script command used to record session and scriptreply is used to replay the recorded session from the file. In this article we will see Linux session recording using script command. scriptreply command is covered in this article.
script command takes a filename as an argument without any switch. It will write your commands along with their outputs in this file. Remember only commands ran after script command will be recorded and till you stop recording by hitting cntl+d key combination or typing exit. Make sure you have proper file permissions on the log file you are asking script to write into. Also, make sure you have enough space for recording since if your outputs are pretty lengthy then logfile gonna grow big.
Let’s start with an example. Here we are recording output in myoutputs.txt file. Command will be script myoutputs.txt:
[root@kerneltalks ~]# script myoutputs.txt
Script started, file is myoutputs.txt
[root@kerneltalks ~]# date
Thu Jul 27 01:31:39 EDT 2017
[root@kerneltalks ~]# hostname
kerneltalks
[root@kerneltalks ~]# w
01:31:46 up 1 min, 2 users, load average: 0.49, 0.21, 0.08
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
ec2-user pts/0 59.184.148.123 01:31 2.00s 0.00s 0.19s sshd: ec2-user [priv]
root pts/1 01:31 2.00s 0.01s 0.01s w
[root@kerneltalks ~]# exit
Script done, file is myoutputs.txt
Now, observe above output.
After script command execution, it notifies you (Script started, file is myoutputs.txt) that it has started recording your session and log file where it is recording.
Then I punched in few commands for testing like date, hostname, w.
I stopped recording by hitting the cntl+d key combination (exit command works too). script stopped and informed (Script is done, the file is myoutputs.txt) it has stopped recording.
Lets look at logfile myoutputs.txt
# cat myoutputs.txt
Script started on Thu 27 Jul 2017 01:31:35 AM EDT
[root@kerneltalks ~]# date
Thu Jul 27 01:31:39 EDT 2017
[root@kerneltalks ~]# hostname
kerneltalks
[root@kerneltalks ~]# w
01:31:46 up 1 min, 2 users, load average: 0.49, 0.21, 0.08
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
ec2-user pts/0 59.184.148.123 01:31 2.00s 0.00s 0.19s sshd: ec2-user [priv]
root pts/1 01:31 2.00s 0.01s 0.01s w
[root@kerneltalks ~]# exit
Script done on Thu 27 Jul 2017 01:31:51 AM EDT
Voila! All commands (including shell prompt PS), their outputs are there in the logfile. Notice that it also added timestamps at the top and bottom of the logfile indicating when the recording was started and stopped.
How to append script command recording in same logfile
Every time script command runs, it empties its logfile and adds content to it. If you want to append your recording to previously recorded file then you need to use -a (append) switch with it. This will keep data in a log file as it is and add new data to the bottom of the file.
[root@kerneltalks ~]# script -a myoutputs.txt
Script started, file is myoutputs.txt
[root@kerneltalks ~]# echo " I love kerneltalks.com"
I love kerneltalks.com
[root@kerneltalks ~]# exit
exit
Script done, file is myoutputs.txt
I used -a switch in the above example to append new recording in the same file we created earlier. Tested one echo command. Let’s check the logfile.
[root@kerneltalks ~]# cat myoutputs.txt
Script started on Thu 27 Jul 2017 01:31:35 AM EDT
[root@kerneltalks ~]# date
Thu Jul 27 01:31:39 EDT 2017
[root@kerneltalks ~]# hostname
kerneltalks
[root@kerneltalks ~]# w
01:31:46 up 1 min, 2 users, load average: 0.49, 0.21, 0.08
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
ec2-user pts/0 59.184.148.123 01:31 2.00s 0.00s 0.19s sshd: ec2-user [priv]
root pts/1 01:31 2.00s 0.01s 0.01s w
[root@kerneltalks ~]# exit
Script done on Thu 27 Jul 2017 01:31:51 AM EDT
Script started on Thu 27 Jul 2017 01:41:13 AM EDT
[root@kerneltalks ~]# echo " I love kerneltalks.com"
I love kerneltalks.com
[root@kerneltalks ~]# exit
exit
Script done on Thu 27 Jul 2017 01:41:24 AM EDT
You can see there are two recordings in the same log file. You can distinguish them by their start and stop time (highlighted in output)
Conclusion :
script command can be used to log commands and their outputs on the Linux server itself. This command can be used in user profiles to monitor user activity on a server provided logfile mount point has huge free space to accommodate data generated by users.
Happy Sysadmin Day 2017! System Administrator Appreciation Day is always last Friday of July month yearly. This year it’s 18th annual.
Happy Sysadmin Day 2017!!
First of all,
Happy Sysadmin Day to all our readers
Yes, its 28 July 2017! System Administrator Appreciation Day 2017!
Sysadmin day is normally last Friday of July month. This year its 18th annual Sysadmin day.
Sysadmin! He/she is the one who keeps your digital world running from behind the scenes. Anything digital you use right from your computer to your ATM card machines, sysadmin is behind them to keep them running healthy. Sysadmin never gets any appreciation he deserves. He works 365 days of year-round the clock even in graveyard shifts. His clock always ticks to make services available all the time. When systems are down everyone else is at ease, the only sysadmin is the one who gets all the heat and overworked to get systems back up. You can not imagine the digital world without sysadmin!
What is sysadmin day
It is a day dedicated to the appreciating system administrator. They are the real hero keeping your digital world running! So why not dedicate one day to appreciate the work they do for you! Appreciate their hard work, their holiday sacrifices, their tolerance when they take heat during downtime, their extra workloads keeping your digital infra up to date. Let’s appreciate at least one sysadmin today by greeting them, gifting them, exchanging little talk with them & expressing thankfulness!!
There are few ways you can appreciate your sysadmin listed here on sysadminday.com. Those are really worth considering.
Cheers!!
Thank you readers (mostly all of you are sysadmins!) for stopping by! Enjoy your day! And yes, for my Linux buddies – Have a happy shell!
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Learn how to save PuTTY output in logfile locally on the desktop. Important settings to be done on PuTTY client before you start your sysadmin work!
Save PuTTY session output in file on desktop
PuTTY is one of the widely used SSH, telnet client to connect Linux Unix servers. Its open-source software and can be downloaded here. This article is intended to beginners who just stepped into the command-line world of *nix. Experienced sysadmins already knew what this article is all about!
Most of the beginners are not familiar with PuTTY settings and they just use default ones. This leaves them into two troubles :
If the command output is too long, it scrolls up the PuTTY screen and the output beginning is not visible.
After closing the PuTTY session, the user won’t have a trace of what he did in his session.
To avoid them we need to tweak few settings in PuTTY and set them in default ones. So that next time you fire up PuTTY client, it starts with tweaked settings as default and makes your life easy!
How to increase PuTTY scroll length
Many times your output is long enough to scroll beyond PuTTY screen buffer and you won’t be able to get to the beginning of the output. To avoid this you need to increase the screen buffer size in settings. Let’s see how to do it. Open PuTTY and select ‘Window‘ on left side pane as below :
Putty scrollback size
You will be presented with settings page on the right which has a field where you can set ‘Lines of scrollback‘. Enter the number of your choice here (big enough). That’s it. Now PuTTY will be having a scroll buffer of the number of lines you specified. Never lost your output beyond scroll!
How to save PuTTY session output on local storage
The next challenge is users don’t get any logs saved by default in PuTTY. So in case you want to a checklist of commands you ran and their outputs, it’s not possible to check (once you close your session). Here session logging comes to rescue. Let’s see how to set it. Open PuTTY and select ‘Logging‘ under ‘Session‘ on the left pane.
Save putty session logs
You will present with logging settings on right. Session logging is off by default. You need to check bullet box next to ‘All session output‘ to log all session output in file. Provide log file name using browse button (specify where to save logs on your system). You can use parameters like &Y, &M (meanings listed below option), so that every time you start a new session, new logfile have unique name. This will avoid overwriting existing file with same name.
PuTTY also offers you to set options what to do when it finds file name already existing on specified path. You can choose to overwrite, append or ask user.
Now whatever commands you type and outputs you see in your session will be saved as it is in a file on your computer as well. These log files can be opened in notepad/Wordpad to view later. Be sure you don’t leave your session running with commands like a top (which continuously changes data on the screen for infinite time). Because this will fill up your logfiles fast and you may end up filling your local hard disk!
Save customized settings in PuTTY as default settings
Now you learned these two settings which are very much important to set but you don’t want to set it everything you fire up PuTTY client. You can save them as default settings!
Open PuTTY and do the above changes. Now, click and select ‘Session‘ on left pane which will bring you back to the client home screen.
PuTTY default setting
Now click and select ‘Default Settings‘ as shown above and click ‘Save‘. That’s it! Your customized settings are now saved as default settings. Now whenever you start PuTTY client it will start with your customized settings.
Have any tips regarding PuTTY client? Share with us in the comments section below!
Learn how to rsync to EC2 with the help of SSH protocol authenticated using a private key file. The process can be used for Rsync from and between EC2.
Rsync to EC2 Linux instance
We learned about Rsync in our last post. We learned how Rsync helps in a data backup or mirroring by using less bandwidth, time on the second run. Since it syncs only changes in later executions after the first fresh copy operation. Now many traditional data centers are moving to cloud services like AWS. Rsync can be useful to sync data from your local server to AWS hosted EC2 instance (if the data size is not huge).
In this article we will learn about how to rsync to EC2 server in AWS. Since you know EC2 Linux instances don’t use a conventional used id-password combination for authentication, Key pairs need to be used in Rsync for authentication EC2. For the Rsync setup, your EC2 instance must be launched with public-private key pair and you should have a private key file with you.
Get started
To start with making sure your EC2 instance is launched with a key pair.
Upload private key file on the source server (from where you are going to Rsync to EC2)
Make sure key file set with 400 permission
Get public IP or public DNS name of EC2 server from AWS EC2 console web page
Confirm you are able to connect from source to EC2. (verify AWS security groups and firewall settings)
Execute Rsync to EC2
We have testfile.tar for testing copy and private key file (mykey.pem) ready on the source server.
[root@kerneltalks ~]# rsync -avz -e "ssh -i /root/mykey.pem" testfile.tar ec2-user@ec2-13-126-114-120.ap-south-1.compute.amazonaws.com:/tmp/
sending incremental file list
testfile.tar
sent 8520069 bytes received 31 bytes 3408040.00 bytes/sec
total size is 39198720 speedup is 4.60
Where –
-a: Archive mode preserves permission and ownership
-v: verbose mode
-z: compress
-e: Choose remote shell of execution
ssh -i keyfile: Use the private key for authentication on destination using ssh protocol
source (testfile.tar)
Destination: Public DNS name of EC2 instance
That’s it! Your file is copied over to EC2. This can be done vice versa as well. You can sync files from the EC2 server to the local server as well. Just switch source-destination paths and you are all set to go.
Rsync between two EC2 servers
Rsync can be executed between two EC2 servers i.e. from one EC2 server to another. The same above command can be used. If you are doing it for EC2 instances within the same region then the Internal DNS name can be used in a command.
Conclusion :
Rsync is possible from, to, and between EC2 servers. Key file authenticated SSH protocol should be used in the Rsync command to achieve this.
Small tutorial to learn how to transfer data between two EC2 Linux instances on AWS. Explains the use of key authentication in the SCP command.
Copy data between two EC2 Linux instances
EC2 instance in AWS is a server instance that uses key-based authentication for login. Now, beginners or first time EC2 users wonder how to copy files from one EC2 server to another? or how to transfer data between two EC2 instances? You can achieve it using key files in scp command.
Few pre-requisites are :
Source and destination EC2 instances should be in the same region (can be in different availability zones)
followed by destination in userid@hostname/ip:/path/ format.
You have to use the Private IP of the destination EC2 instance. You can get this from your AWS EC2 console web page. Here kerneltalks2 has private IP 172.31.24.59. You can use hostname if you make an entry in /etc/hosts file. Remember different Linux distros on AWS have different login id to be used.
# scp -i /root/mykey.pem testfile.tar ec2-user@172.31.29.79:/tmp
The authenticity of host '172.31.29.79 (172.31.29.79)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 66:c4:ce:37:c6:e6:a1:6c:2f:f9:9b:f2:f5:05:e3:38.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added '172.31.29.79' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
testfile.tar 100% 37MB 37.4MB/s 00:00
In the above output, you can see kerneltalks2 authenticated using key file and file transfer was completed.
[root@kerneltalks2 ~]# ls /tmp/testfile.tar
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 39198720 Dec 19 2016 testfile.tar
Rsync is another good way to copy data between two EC2 instances. You can learn about it in our other article: Rsync for EC2 on AWS.
Conclusion :
Files and directories can be transferred between two ec2 instances using the same Linux scp command. Only the authentication part is to be done using a key file with -i switch.
Rsync command used to copy and sync files, directories locally or remotely. Learn rsync with different examples and options.
Rsync command! Data backup with copy and sync!
Rsync i.e. Remote Sync is the command used for copying and synchronizing files or directories locally or remotely on Linux Unix based systems. In this article we will learn how to use rsync command. different switches of it and examples.
As you know Rsync not only copies but also synchronizes files and directories, it is best for mirroring data between two machines and data backups. Rsync is an efficient way than any other copy command since it takes bandwidth and time only for the first time of data copy. In consecutive sync cycles, it only transfers data which is changed. This requires less bandwidth and time, but you still have updated data at the destination! Hence it is best for remote data mirrors and backups.
Lets see Rsync command with different uses and their examples.
Rsync command should be available on your system in plain vanilla installation. If not, install the ‘rsync’ package. Basically without any switch you can run the command with just source and destination path. The path can be local or remote.
# rsync testfile /tmp/
This is a very basic simple example of rsync command. It won’t show any output and copy/sync data from source file ‘testfile‘ to destination file under /tmp directory.
Rsync command with verbose mode
-v switch can be used for verbose mode. Information like byte sent, bytes received, transfer speed, the total size of the source is displayed on the console when command run.
# rsync -v testfile /tmp/directory9/
created directory /tmp/directory9
testfile
sent 79 bytes received 31 bytes 220.00 bytes/sec
total size is 7 speedup is 0.06
If you watch closely, Rsync will create a destination directory if it does not exist!
Rsync command to copy directories
-r (recursive copy) the switch helps in copying directories recursively to destination.
# rsync -rv testdir /tmp/
sending incremental file list
testdir/
testdir/test2
testdir/test4
testdir/test1/
testdir/test3/
sent 194 bytes received 62 bytes 512.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
In the above example we used verbose mode as well. Directory testdir has two files named test2, test4. It also has directories named test1, test3. All these 4 entities copy over to destination as you see their listing in output.
Preserve permissions and ownership while rsync copy
-a (archive mode) the switch used to instruct rsync to preserve file directory permissions and ownership at the destination.
# ll test1
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jul 23 22:40 test1
# rsync -av test1 /tmp
sending incremental file list
test1
sent 69 bytes received 31 bytes 200.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
# ll /tmp/test1
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jul 23 22:40 /tmp/test1
You can observe source and destination permissions and ownership is preserved after using -a switch with rsync.
Rsync with compression
One of the important factors while copying data is bandwidth. Bandwidth utilization can be reduced with compressed data. Compressed data transfer is more speedy, takes less time and bandwidth. Rsync allows us to compress data during transfer using -z switch.
# rsync -azv test1 /tmp
sending incremental file list
test1
sent 66 bytes received 31 bytes 194.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
If you observe we synced the same file test1 from previous example output (obviously after removing /tmp/test1). Without compression it sent 69 bytes and now with compression 66 bytes! I know, 3 bytes is no big difference but these are empty test files. Compression makes a big difference with a bunch of huge files.
Rsync to copy from local to remote
For copying file/directory from local to remote, specify the destination as remote in notation username@hostname_or_IP:/path/
# rsync -azv test1 root@10.10.1.23:/tmp/
root@10.10.1.23's password:
sending incremental file list
test1
sent 66 bytes received 31 bytes 21323.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
Rsync to copy from remote to local
It will work like the above example only you have to reverse source and destination.
# rsync -azv root@10.10.1.23:/tmp/ test1
root@10.10.1.23's password:
sending incremental file list
test1
sent 66 bytes received 31 bytes 21123.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
I am transferring empty file here hence you see total size as zero.
Limiting bandwidth use in Rsync
Another important aspect of network file copy is to limit the bandwidth of transfer so that it won’t take whole available bandwidth, choke network, and degrade the network performance for other services/devices using it. Rsync has the ability to limit bandwidth with --bwlimit switch. The switch should be supplied to specify a maximum transfer rate in kilobytes per second.
# rsync -razv --bwlimit=100 httpd-2.4.25 /tmp/
sending incremental file list
httpd-2.4.25/srclib/apr/build/
httpd-2.4.25/srclib/apr/build/ltmain.sh
-----output clipped------
sent 1214030 bytes received 10136 bytes 97933.28 bytes/sec
total size is 83112573 speedup is 67.89
You can see speed limited to 97kbps (97933 bytes/sec) as per our specification 100kbps in command switch --bwlimit.
Show progress while transferring in Rsync
If you have a list of file directories with big size then its good to see the progress of each transfer so that you are assured that transfer is in progress and not hung. Specify --progress switch so that transfer details shown for each file transfer in output.
In the above output you can see after each file copied, transfer speed details, the duration is flashed on the screen.
Apart from above all switches, there is the whole list of switch which can be used with Rsync command. All of them can be found under the Rsync man page on your terminal. I am listing a few important one below for your quick reference.
-h: Output numbers will be shown in a human-readable format
--include: Include files. Wild cards can be used
--exclude: Exclude from the copy. Wild cards can be used
-q: Quiet mode. Suppress non-error messages
--backup: Make a backup
-l: Copy links as well
-H: Preserve hard links
-t: Preserve modification times
--dry-run: Perform dry run. No changes actually made.
--delete-after: Delete files after transfer
Let us know if you want additions of examples of any specific switch in the below comments. I will add them accordingly.
Learn how to create access keys in AWS with screenshots. Also see how to make access key active, inactive, and delete.
Access keys in AWS
Security is a top priority when you are using cloud services. Username/password is a primitive form of security we used for account security. Since technology has evolved and automation took over the day-to-day activities, manual work has been transformed into API calls. Many things get their work done by making API calls to respected services.
In the cloud, once service gets connected to another service with API Calls. API calls also need to get authenticated across services so that your cloud infra stays secure. For that AWS uses access keys that can be supplied to source service to get it authenticated at destination service and complete API calls. Now, the question is where are my access keys in AWS? Where to create access keys in AWS? In this article we will see how to create, make active, make inactive, and delete access keys in AWS.
How to create access keys in AWS?
Login to your AWS console and navigate to this IAM dashboard part. This page helps you to manage your security credentials like password, MFA, access keys, certificates, etc. Expand ‘Access Keys (Access Key ID and Secret Access Key)‘ and you will see space to create new access keys like below.
Access keys dashboard
Here, click on the button ‘Create New Access Key‘. Once clicked your access key pair will be generated automatically. Each access key pair consist of access key ID and secret access key. Access key ID will be visible to you in your account all the time (like you can see it in the above screenshot). But, the secret access key is visible only time of the creation for security purposes. You also have the choice to download a secret access key file. But apart from this file and time of creation you won’t be able to see/retrieve this key. It’s your duty to keep it safe. After hitting create keys button you will see below screen :
Create access keys
Both keys can be reveled to copy and save, by clicking the‘Show Access Key‘ link in the above dialogue box. Keys will be shown to you in plain text like below :
Display access keys
You can also opt to save this key pair. Click Download Key File button. Your key pair will be downloaded as a rootkey.csv file. Inside the CSV file, the key pair is in plain text format as stated below.
Your existing key pairs you must be used in some services. But sometimes they are sitting idle there since you haven’t used them. Sometimes, you need to stop the access to service which was using key pair. In such cases, it’s best to make that key pair inactive. So that access to service using that key pair will be paused. This might be useful in troubleshooting as well.
To make access key inactive visit the same security console in your AWS account and list all existing key pairs by expanding ‘Access Keys (Access Key ID and Secret Access Key)‘. Identify your required key and click the‘Make Inactive‘ link against it in the last column named ‘Actions’.
The key status will turn inactive and all its authorizations will be paused. It can be verified in a column named status against it.
How to make access key active?
For all keys which are inactive in the state will have a ‘Make Active’ link against them in the last ‘Actions’ column. You have to click it to make them active again.
How to delete access key?
Under Actions column you will also see Delete link besides active/inactive one. This is to be used when you want to delete access key.
Delete access key
It will confirm you like the above screenshot before deleting. Deleting key will still keep it in dashboard listing with status as ‘delete’ but you won’t be able to use it in the future.
# apt-get install autotools-dev
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Once completed, proceed with installing automake package.
# apt-get install automake
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update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/automake-1.15 to provide /usr/bin/automake (automake) in auto mode
This automake package will get you through success! After installing both of them I tried running script again and it was successful.
Learn to mount an S3 bucket in RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS Linux server. Understand how to debug issues while mounting an S3 bucket.
Mount S3 bucket in Linux
In this article we will walk through the process by which you can mount an S3 bucket on the Linux server. S3 bucket is a storage container of S3 (simple storage service) AWS service. As all traditional data centers are moving to cloud computing, it is necessary to know how to interconnect cloud and traditional services. Let’s dive into the process to mount an S3 bucket in RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS Linux. The complete process can be done in below 3 steps:
Install fuse and s3fs packages
Configure access keys of your AWS account
Mount S3 bucket
For this tutorial, we are assuming you have an S3 bucket ready in your AWS account with a proper permission setup. If not, follow this tutorial to create an S3 bucket in AWS.
Install fuse and s3fs packages
These packages can be found here: fuse & s3fs. You have to download them on the Linux server with tools like wget and compile them. Make sure you have their dependencies installed before you try to compile them.
Dependencies are :
for RedHat based : automakegccgcc-c++gitlibcurl-devellibxml2-develmakeopenssl-develmailcapcurl-devellibstdc++-devel
for Debian based : automakeautotools-devg++gitlibcurl4-gnutls-devlibfuse-devlibssl-devlibxml2-devmakepkg-config
Install all these packages and follow the below steps to configure fuse and s3fs. Make sure there is no package named fuse of s3fs exist in the server before you proceed. This is to avoid conflicts in installation.
Fuse installation –
Use the below commands. Use the latest Fuse download link used in wget command. You can obtain it from Github here.
# cd /usr/src/
# wget https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/releases/download/fuse-3.1.0/fuse-3.1.0.tar.gz
# tar -zxf fuse-3.1.0.tar.gz
# cd fuse-3.1.0
# ./configure -prefix=/usr/local
# make && make install
# export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
# ldconfig
# modprobe fuse
The fuse installation output is below for your reference. Click and expand if you want to view it.
# cd /usr/src/
# wget https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/releases/download/fuse-3.1.0/fuse-3.1.0.tar.gz
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# tar -zxf fuse-3.1.0.tar.gz
# cd fuse-3.1.0
# ./configure -prefix=/usr/local
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking how to print strings... printf
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for fgrep... /bin/grep -F
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checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking the name lister (/usr/bin/nm -B) interface... BSD nm
checking whether ln -s works... yes
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checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu format... func_convert_file_noop
checking how to convert x86_64-pc-linux-gnu file names to toolchain format... func_convert_file_noop
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for objdump... objdump
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for dlltool... no
checking how to associate runtime and link libraries... printf %s\n
checking for ar... ar
checking for archiver @FILE support... @
checking for strip... strip
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for sysroot... no
checking for a working dd... /bin/dd
checking how to truncate binary pipes... /bin/dd bs=4096 count=1
checking for mt... mt
checking if mt is a manifest tool... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for objdir... .libs
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
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checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC -DPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... (cached) yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
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checking for gcc option to accept ISO C99... none needed
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checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
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checking for library containing dlopen... -ldl
checking for library containing clock_gettime... none required
checking for ulockmgr_op in -lulockmgr... no
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld -m elf_x86_64) is GNU ld... yes
checking for shared library run path origin... done
checking for iconv... yes
checking for working iconv... yes
checking for iconv declaration...
extern size_t iconv (iconv_t cd, char * *inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
configure: MOUNT_FUSE_PATH env var not set, using default ${sbindir}
configure: UDEV_RULES_PATH env var not set, using default ${libdir}/udev/rules.d
configure: INIT_D_PATH env var not set, using default ${sysconfdir}/init.d
checking if umount supports --fake --no-canonicalize... yes
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating fuse3.pc
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Makefile
config.status: creating util/Makefile
config.status: creating example/Makefile
config.status: creating include/Makefile
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating test/Makefile
config.status: creating include/config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands
# make && make install
Making all in include
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/include'
make all-am
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/include'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/include'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/include'
Making all in lib
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/lib'
CC fuse.lo
CC fuse_loop.lo
CC fuse_loop_mt.lo
CC fuse_lowlevel.lo
CC fuse_opt.lo
CC fuse_signals.lo
CC buffer.lo
CC cuse_lowlevel.lo
CC helper.lo
helper.c: In function ‘fuse_daemonize’:
helper.c:226:4: warning: ignoring return value of ‘read’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
(void) read(waiter[0], &completed, sizeof(completed));
^
helper.c:235:3: warning: ignoring return value of ‘chdir’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
(void) chdir("/");
^
helper.c:248:3: warning: ignoring return value of ‘write’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
(void) write(waiter[1], &completed, sizeof(completed));
^
helper.c:252:3: warning: ignoring return value of ‘chdir’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
(void) chdir("/");
^
CC modules/subdir.lo
CC modules/iconv.lo
CC mount.lo
CC mount_util.lo
mount_util.c: In function ‘mtab_needs_update’:
mount_util.c:68:4: warning: ignoring return value of ‘setreuid’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
setreuid(0, -1);
^
mount_util.c:73:4: warning: ignoring return value of ‘setreuid’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
setreuid(ruid, -1);
^
CCLD libfuse3.la
ar: `u' modifier ignored since `D' is the default (see `U')
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/lib'
Making all in util
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/util'
make all-am
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/util'
CC fusermount3-fusermount.o
CC fusermount3-mount_util.o
mount_util.c: In function ‘mtab_needs_update’:
mount_util.c:68:4: warning: ignoring return value of ‘setreuid’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
setreuid(0, -1);
^
mount_util.c:73:4: warning: ignoring return value of ‘setreuid’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
setreuid(ruid, -1);
^
CCLD fusermount3
CC mount.fuse.o
CCLD mount.fuse3
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/util'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/util'
Making all in example
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/example'
CC passthrough.o
CCLD passthrough
CC passthrough_fh.o
CCLD passthrough_fh
CC null.o
CCLD null
CC hello.o
CCLD hello
CC hello_ll.o
CCLD hello_ll
CC ioctl.o
CCLD ioctl
CC ioctl_client-ioctl_client.o
CCLD ioctl_client
CC poll.o
CCLD poll
CC poll_client-poll_client.o
CCLD poll_client
CC passthrough_ll.o
CCLD passthrough_ll
CC notify_inval_inode.o
CCLD notify_inval_inode
CC notify_store_retrieve.o
CCLD notify_store_retrieve
CC notify_inval_entry.o
CCLD notify_inval_entry
CC cuse.o
CCLD cuse
CC cuse_client.o
CCLD cuse_client
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/example'
Making all in test
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/test'
CC test_syscalls.o
CCLD test_syscalls
CC test_write_cache.o
CCLD test_write_cache
CC test_setattr.o
CCLD test_setattr
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/test'
Making all in doc
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/doc'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/doc'
make[1]: Entering directory 'https://z5.kerneltalks.com/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'all-am'.
make[1]: Leaving directory 'https://z5.kerneltalks.com/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0'
Making install in include
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/include'
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/include'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/include/fuse3'
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 fuse.h fuse_common.h fuse_lowlevel.h fuse_opt.h cuse_lowlevel.h '/usr/local/include/fuse3'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/include'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/include'
Making install in lib
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/lib'
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/lib'
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/lib'
/bin/bash ../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c libfuse3.la '/usr/local/lib'
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libfuse3.so.3.1.0 /usr/local/lib/libfuse3.so.3.1.0
libtool: install: (cd /usr/local/lib && { ln -s -f libfuse3.so.3.1.0 libfuse3.so.3 || { rm -f libfuse3.so.3 && ln -s libfuse3.so.3.1.0 libfuse3.so.3; }; })
libtool: install: (cd /usr/local/lib && { ln -s -f libfuse3.so.3.1.0 libfuse3.so || { rm -f libfuse3.so && ln -s libfuse3.so.3.1.0 libfuse3.so; }; })
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libfuse3.lai /usr/local/lib/libfuse3.la
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libfuse3.a /usr/local/lib/libfuse3.a
libtool: install: chmod 644 /usr/local/lib/libfuse3.a
libtool: install: ranlib /usr/local/lib/libfuse3.a
libtool: finish: PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin:/sbin" ldconfig -n /usr/local/lib
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Libraries have been installed in:
/usr/local/lib
If you ever happen to want to link against installed libraries
in a given directory, LIBDIR, you must either use libtool, and
specify the full pathname of the library, or use the '-LLIBDIR'
flag during linking and do at least one of the following:
- add LIBDIR to the 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' environment variable
during execution
- add LIBDIR to the 'LD_RUN_PATH' environment variable
during linking
- use the '-Wl,-rpath -Wl,LIBDIR' linker flag
- have your system administrator add LIBDIR to 'https://z5.kerneltalks.com/etc/ld.so.conf'
See any operating system documentation about shared libraries for
more information, such as the ld(1) and ld.so(8) manual pages.
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make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-data-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/lib'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/lib'
Making install in util
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/util'
make install-am
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/util'
make[3]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/util'
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/bin'
/bin/bash ../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c fusermount3 '/usr/local/bin'
libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c fusermount3 /usr/local/bin/fusermount3
/bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/sbin
/usr/bin/install -c ./mount.fuse3 /usr/local/sbin/mount.fuse3
/bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/init.d
/usr/bin/install -c ./init_script /usr/local/etc/init.d/fuse3
/usr/sbin/update-rc.d fuse start 34 S . start 41 0 6 . || true
update-rc.d: error: unable to read /etc/init.d/fuse
make install-exec-hook
make[4]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/util'
chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/fusermount3
make[4]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/util'
/bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/udev/rules.d
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./udev.rules /usr/local/lib/udev/rules.d/99-fuse3.rules
make[3]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/util'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/util'
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Making install in example
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/example'
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/example'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-data-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/example'
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Making install in test
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/test'
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/test'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-data-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/test'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/test'
Making install in doc
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/doc'
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/doc'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/share/man/man1'
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 fusermount3.1 '/usr/local/share/man/man1'
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/share/man/man8'
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 mount.fuse.8 '/usr/local/share/man/man8'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0/doc'
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make[1]: Entering directory 'https://z5.kerneltalks.com/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0'
make[2]: Entering directory 'https://z5.kerneltalks.com/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig'
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 fuse3.pc '/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig'
make[2]: Leaving directory 'https://z5.kerneltalks.com/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0'
make[1]: Leaving directory 'https://z5.kerneltalks.com/usr/src/fuse-3.1.0'
# export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
# ldconfig
# modprobe fuse
s3fs installation-
Use the below commands. We are cloning git here so no need to check the latest release from GitHub website.
# git clone https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse.git
# cd s3fs-fuse
# ./autogen.sh
# ./configure
# make
# make install
s3fs installation output is below for your reference. Click and expand if you want to refer it.
# git clone https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse.git
Cloning into 's3fs-fuse'...
remote: Counting objects: 3552, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (5/5), done.
remote: Total 3552 (delta 0), reused 2 (delta 0), pack-reused 3547
Receiving objects: 100% (3552/3552), 1.80 MiB | 1.15 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2426/2426), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
# cd s3fs-fuse
# ./autogen.sh
--- Make commit hash file -------
--- Finished commit hash file ---
--- Start autotools -------------
configure.ac:30: installing './compile'
configure.ac:26: installing './config.guess'
configure.ac:26: installing './config.sub'
configure.ac:27: installing './install-sh'
configure.ac:27: installing './missing'
src/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
parallel-tests: installing './test-driver'
--- Finished autotools ----------
# ./configure
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking for g++... g++
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking sys/xattr.h usability... yes
checking sys/xattr.h presence... yes
checking for sys/xattr.h... yes
checking attr/xattr.h usability... no
checking attr/xattr.h presence... no
checking for attr/xattr.h... no
checking sys/extattr.h usability... no
checking sys/extattr.h presence... no
checking for sys/extattr.h... no
checking s3fs build with nettle(GnuTLS)... no
checking s3fs build with OpenSSL... no
checking s3fs build with GnuTLS... no
checking s3fs build with NSS... no
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for common_lib_checking... yes
checking compile s3fs with... OpenSSL
checking for DEPS... yes
checking for malloc_trim... yes
checking for library containing clock_gettime... none required
checking for clock_gettime... yes
checking pthread mutex recursive... PTHREAD_MUTEX_RECURSIVE
checking for git... yes
checking for .git... yes
checking github short commit hash... b1fe419
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating test/Makefile
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
# make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/s3fs-fuse'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/s3fs-fuse/src'
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/fuse -I/usr/include/libxml2 -g -O2 -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -MT s3fs.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/s3fs.Tpo -c -o s3fs.o s3fs.cpp
mv -f .deps/s3fs.Tpo .deps/s3fs.Po
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/fuse -I/usr/include/libxml2 -g -O2 -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -MT curl.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/curl.Tpo -c -o curl.o curl.cpp
mv -f .deps/curl.Tpo .deps/curl.Po
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/fuse -I/usr/include/libxml2 -g -O2 -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -MT cache.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/cache.Tpo -c -o cache.o cache.cpp
mv -f .deps/cache.Tpo .deps/cache.Po
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/fuse -I/usr/include/libxml2 -g -O2 -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -MT string_util.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/string_util.Tpo -c -o string_util.o string_util.cpp
mv -f .deps/string_util.Tpo .deps/string_util.Po
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/fuse -I/usr/include/libxml2 -g -O2 -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -MT s3fs_util.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/s3fs_util.Tpo -c -o s3fs_util.o s3fs_util.cpp
mv -f .deps/s3fs_util.Tpo .deps/s3fs_util.Po
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/fuse -I/usr/include/libxml2 -g -O2 -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -MT fdcache.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/fdcache.Tpo -c -o fdcache.o fdcache.cpp
mv -f .deps/fdcache.Tpo .deps/fdcache.Po
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/fuse -I/usr/include/libxml2 -g -O2 -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -MT common_auth.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/common_auth.Tpo -c -o common_auth.o common_auth.cpp
mv -f .deps/common_auth.Tpo .deps/common_auth.Po
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/fuse -I/usr/include/libxml2 -g -O2 -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -MT addhead.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/addhead.Tpo -c -o addhead.o addhead.cpp
mv -f .deps/addhead.Tpo .deps/addhead.Po
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/fuse -I/usr/include/libxml2 -g -O2 -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -MT openssl_auth.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/openssl_auth.Tpo -c -o openssl_auth.o openssl_auth.cpp
mv -f .deps/openssl_auth.Tpo .deps/openssl_auth.Po
g++ -g -O2 -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -o s3fs s3fs.o curl.o cache.o string_util.o s3fs_util.o fdcache.o common_auth.o addhead.o openssl_auth.o -lfuse -pthread -lcurl -lxml2 -lcrypto
fdcache.o: In function `FdEntity::OpenMirrorFile()':
/usr/src/s3fs-fuse/src/fdcache.cpp:761: warning: the use of `tmpnam' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/fuse -I/usr/include/libxml2 -g -O2 -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -MT test_string_util.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/test_string_util.Tpo -c -o test_string_util.o test_string_util.cpp
mv -f .deps/test_string_util.Tpo .deps/test_string_util.Po
g++ -g -O2 -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -o test_string_util string_util.o test_string_util.o
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/s3fs-fuse/src'
Making all in test
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/s3fs-fuse/test'
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Making all in doc
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make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'all-am'.
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# make install
Making install in src
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/s3fs-fuse/src'
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/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/bin'
/usr/bin/install -c s3fs '/usr/local/bin'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-data-am'.
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Making install in test
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make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
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Making install in doc
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make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/share/man/man1'
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 man/s3fs.1 '/usr/local/share/man/man1'
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make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/s3fs-fuse'
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/s3fs-fuse'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for 'install-data-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/s3fs-fuse'
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Configure access keys of your AWS account
Now you need to configure your AWS account security keys in s3fs utility. For that you need to visit your AWS account’s IAM (Identity and Access Management) page and get those keys under ‘Access Keys (Access Key ID and Secret Access Key)‘. If you haven’t created any till the time, then you can create a new key pair and use it.
There are two keys: Access Key ID and Secret Access Key. Add those keys in file/etc/s3fs-keysseparated by a colon. You can keep them in any file name and path of your choice. I prefer to keep it in /etc where other OS imp files reside.
Remove other permission to read this key file. If you don’t set permission 0 to others then s3fs command utility will warn you about it like below. For extra security you can make this file hidden by adding . in the filename.
s3fs: credentials file /etc/s3fs-keys should not have others permissions.
Now you are ready to mount your bucket.
Mount S3 bucket
Now run s3fs utility with bucket name you want to mount followed by directory on which you want to mount it. -o switch to be used to specify a key file path. If you used another filename and path than /etc/s3fs-keys then use it accordingly. There are many other options that can be supplied with this command to control cache and permission on the Linux server (OS side) which I haven’t mentioned here.
You can perform all file and directory operations as you do on normal mount point. Observe size it showing – 256T! That’s huge, that’s S3 – almost unlimited storage!
You can add an entry in /etc/fstab to mount your bucket on boot too. Use below entry :
If your bucket name includes . then s3fs may fail to mount your bucket. Curl will exist the mount operation as SSL on Amazon won’t be matched as certificate wild card matching fails due to extra . in your bucket name. To understand, if I have bucket name kerneltalks.bucket then SSL wildcard mismatch will happen as indicated by below error –
SSL: certificate subject name (*.s3.amazonaws.com) does not match target host name ‘kerneltalks.bucket.s3.amazonaws.com’
To see errors, warning during mount operation you can run s3fs command with debugging on. Append below switches to the end of your s3fs mount command:
-d -d -f -o f2 -o curldbg
This will help you troubleshoot any issues you faced during the S3 bucket mount.
This is how we mount S3 bucket in Linux servers like Redhat, Ubuntu, Debian, etc. Let us know if you have any feedback/comments/suggestions in below comment box.
Learn how to create an S3 bucket in AWS step by step. Understand permissions and properties of the bucket which are to be set while creating.
S3 bucket creation in AWS
S3 which stands for Simple Storage Service is a storage web service provided by Amazon web service. S3 is the replacement of storage boxes in traditional data centers. Its highly scale-able, cheap, reliable alternative. In S3 data is stored in a bucket. The bucket is the root folder in S3. You can have more than one bucket in a single AWS account. Files stored in buckets are called objects. You can control access to data by defining permissions at the bucket level and object level.
In this article we will see how to create S3 bucket with screenshots.
Step 1 –
Login to AWS console and select S3 under Storage. You can even search it under the search bar of the console.
S3 in AWS console
It will take you to Amazon S3 console where you can see ‘create bucket‘ button along with Delete bucket and Empty bucket button in header.
S3 console
Step 2 –
Click create a bucket and you will be presented with bucket wizard. Enter the bucket name of your choice. Remember it should be unique across all AWS infrastructure. Select region (geographically nearest to source/destination from where read/write of data will happen to/from this bucket to avoid latency). If you want to create a new bucket with the setting of the existing bucket, you can specify the existing bucket name in the last option.
Create bucket wizard
Hit next after filling the required details. You will enter the bucket properties screen as below.
S3 Bucket properties
Here you can set these properties to your bucket.
Versioning. Enable to keep all versions of objects when altered. Once enabled it can not be disabled. It can only be suspended then.
Logging. It will track all access requests made to this bucket.
Tags. Add tags of your choice to identify bucket easily in other AWS services and billing.
All are disabled by default. Once you enable features of your choice hit next. You will enter the permission settings screen.
S3 bucket permissions
Here you can manage permissions at the user, public, and system level. Public and system permissions can be enabled or disabled. User-level permission can be set read, write and user id wise.
Once you are done, hit next and the review screen will show you all the options you have selected as a final confirmation before creating a bucket.
Bucket review screen before creation
Hit create bucket now. Your bucket will be created and you will be redirected back to bucket list screen where you can see your newly created bucket!
Bucket list
Step 3 –
If you click on bucket name you will be able to get into bucket itself where you can upload objects.
Inside S3 bucket
Even tabs like properties, permissions, management are visible in the menu bar which can be used to administer this bucket. We will see them in another post.
