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I have setup a auto scaled load balanced application on Amazon EC2. I want to collect the logs from the auto scaled instances before automatic termination of the instances.

I have a script which transfers files from the auto scaled instances to a Centralize log server. I want to run the script on shutdown or reboot of the instances. I am using Fedora, please let me know how to run the script on shutdown after all the user process have been stopped ?

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Note that to do the transfer you'll have to do it before networking is shut down, otherwise you won't be able to do the transfer. – Cry Havok Oct 20 '10 at 6:25
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Write an initscript that performs the task in stop(). See /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysvinitfiles for details.

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I created a file transferlogs with the following contents #!/bin/bash start(){ } stop() { echo -n "Shutting down logtransfer status: " cd /etc/init.d/ ./logtransfer } case "$1" in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; status) ;; restart) stop start ;; reload) ;; esac exit 0 – Santhosh S Oct 22 '10 at 8:33
chmod +x /etc/init.d/transferlogs and restarted the system. But the logs were not transferred to the other server. – Santhosh S Oct 22 '10 at 8:41
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Your script is missing a lot of required boilerplate. Read that file again. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Oct 22 '10 at 14:06
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