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+#!/usr/bin/python
+#
+#    Fetch login credentials for EC2 
+#    Copyright 2008 Canonical Ltd.
+#
+#    Author: Chuck Short <chuck.short@canonical.com>
+#
+#    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+#    (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#    GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+import urllib
+import os
+from Cheetah.Template import Template
+
+api_ver = '2008-02-01'
+metadata = None
+
+base_url = 'http://169.254.169.254/%s/meta-data' % api_ver
+my_hostname = urllib.urlopen('%s/local-hostname/' % base_url).read()
+os.system('hostname %s' % my_hostname)
+
+# replace the ubuntu hostname in /etc/hosts
+mp = {'hostname': my_hostname}
+t = Template(file="/etc/ec2-init/templates/hosts.tmpl", searchList=[mp])
+
+os.system("rm  /etc/hosts")
+f = open("/etc/hosts", "w")
+f.write('%s' %(t))
+f.close()