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Trying to debug why my init scripts weren’t initing on EC2, I checked all the normal places.
The chkconfig tool reported that my services should be on at runlevel 3:

jboss 0:off   1:off   2:off   3:on    4:off   5:on    6:off

My /etc/inittab says I was booting to runlevel 3:

id:3:initdefault:

Yet the console did not show my things to be [...]

It can sometimes be funny, the paths we take.
Once I’d verified that a Rails app deployed on JBoss would indeed cluster, I sat in my farmhouse, looking at my lone little Mac.  Not much of a cluster to play with.
So I started looking at Amazon EC2, which is truly very nice, particularly when paired with [...]

Elasticfox is a nice extension for managing your relationship with EC2 from within Firefox.  It’s XUL-based, somewhat homely and odd.  But it’s so much nicer than dealing with the ec2-* scripts directly and copying Amazon’s wacky hash identifiers hither and thither.
But on OSX, the “ssh to this instance” button is wired up to Terminal.app.  I [...]