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saidshow
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Jul 18, 2019
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Where to place bash scripts on the appliance in order to survive platform upgrades?

Hi All,   I have a bash script that is executed by an iCall script. I know iCall will survive an upgrade of the BIG-IP platform however I suspect that my bash script will need to be placed in to ...
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  • JG's avatar
    JG
    Jul 21, 2019

    /var/tmp is actually a link to /shared/tmp. So no need to agaonize over them. If it is a file of a temporary nature, use /var/tmp; otherwise you can create a directory structure /shared/my_icall/bash_scritps/ and put your bash scripts there, as SP's suggested above.

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saidshow
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Jul 21, 2019

Thanks to both JG and Stanislas Piron for your suggestions. It appears as though both options will suffice. I actually raised a ticket with F5 last week asking the same question, F5 have suggested /config however the engineer that suggested this also noted that he was going to confirm and get back to me. I have not yet had confirmation that /config is what they recommend.

 

Of the suggestions so far I would prefer to stay out of the /config folder. Both /var/tmp and my own folder in /shared/ feel like better options.

When I have the official response from F5 I will also add it here. Thank you both once again!