Reboot after stackscript

Hello .. hmm … you need to allow the the StackScript to exit so its parent can clean up. You can either cron, or fork a script that waits and then issues a reboot to achieve this. I've done it, plenty of others have too.

Why not make the call to add the private IP before booting? No rebooting necessary that way.

-Chris

Thanks, Chris. I was thinking that I'd either cron or touch a file to indicate on restart that the stackscript should just exit the second time around. That just seemed "sloppier" to me so I figured I was doing something wrong. Can you point me to an example of forking the script. I thought that's what the (command) & syntax was doing in the page I linked and that didn't work. The script finishes OK but doesn't reboot.

I'll look into adding the IP first. If that saves me a reboot, it's a good solution.

Try adding this to the end of your stack script````
$(shutdown -r +1) &

````

Thanks, obs. I'll give that a shot.

Turns out I was adding the private IP before boot OK. But I was using "service networking restart" which doesn't work on the Ubuntu boxes I'm creating. I changed it to use "/etc/init.d/networking restart", which complains but seems to actually bring up my aliases.

Off to test. Thanks for the advice.