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saidshow
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Jul 19, 2019

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 22, 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 22, 2019

In my own lab, I created a folder and within that a test.txt with some sample text. I had this folder in /config, /shared/ and also /var/tmp/. In all 3 cases this folder and the file did exist post minor version upgrade. 13.0.0 to 13.1.1.5. I do expect that there is an optimal location to prevent issues from arising or to support major version upgrades. I have requested an update on my ticket with F5 however there is not yet any update since Friday (3 days ago.)