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petarpetrovic
PostPosted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 5:43 pm 
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I have a 2048 Linode and when I enter

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curl -s https://lv.linode.com/**** | sudo bash


and type in my root password, I get the following error:

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bash: line 1: html: No such file or directory
bash: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `<'
'ash: line 2: `<head><title>502 Bad Gateway</title></head>


Is it something related to my Linode or it is a hiccup on the Linode's side?
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sosh
PostPosted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 4:06 am 
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I'm seeing the same thing, but perhaps it's something I've screwed up...
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sosh
PostPosted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 4:15 am 
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Hmm - I just retried a few times, and it worked. So I guess it's a linode issue. Strangely pasting the url in the browser on my desktop machine worked fine.
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brianok
PostPosted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 9:15 am 
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Sorry about that! This is a known issue that we're hoping to resolve permanently soon. However, we've made some changes and you should all be good to go for the time being.
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Vance
PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 4:25 pm 
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Personally, I would be wary of running any downloaded script (especially as root!) without reviewing it first. At a minimum, it would be a good idea to check if the download succeeded first. The following one-liner should do that, but I haven't tested it...

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TFILE=$(mktemp -t XXXXXXXXXX.sh) if curl -s https://lv.linode.com/**** > $TFILE; then sudo bash $TFILE; else echo "Download failed"; fi; rm -i $TFILE
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Nibbler
PostPosted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 5:36 pm 
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I would suggest

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curl -sfS https://lv.linode.com/**** | sudo bash


That will fail properly on a 50x error, won't pass html to the shell but will show an error message.
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Vance
PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:14 pm 
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Ha, should have guessed curl had a built-in option to handle that case. That's a simpler and better solution.
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Stan_Theman
PostPosted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:31 pm 
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We've corrected this issue and made the error message better for installing. Please let us know if you hit this again!
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Guspaz
PostPosted: Sat Jul 20, 2013 6:27 pm 
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My problem was more that curl is not installed by default on Linode's most popular distro (Ubuntu).
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