From owner-freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org Sat Oct 28 17:12:13 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-cloud@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0914CE4840D for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:12:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 0100015f63f819ed-fde905a7-3a95-474e-838a-7883549e0430-000000@amazonses.com) Received: from a8-60.smtp-out.amazonses.com (a8-60.smtp-out.amazonses.com [54.240.8.60]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C46837554A for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:12:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 0100015f63f819ed-fde905a7-3a95-474e-838a-7883549e0430-000000@amazonses.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/simple; s=ae7m2yrxjw65l2cqdpjxuucyrvy564tn; d=tarsnap.com; t=1509210725; h=Subject:To:References:From:Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; bh=axAvNoPFuMFO51+M+Q1UXL+W4kjHybHmoiRTOFWtSbw=; b=f2xIvfg43HZxy55aS2Y3gKlMT+PEBaEPLzvnsx4oItStTZTh/DEDYGgMxcC2JK7X lFO1GZyAw8Fu0cloXO/sx3ZzQ/gcMNT0A1PKZXMOBOdxpaOdKk+Kgp57vS4IeZha+BH PBwRtySlKUHpaa0d1wXcTVMmWSckp2l9GNEH7l8Y= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/simple; s=224i4yxa5dv7c2xz3womw6peuasteono; d=amazonses.com; t=1509210725; h=Subject:To:References:From:Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Feedback-ID; bh=axAvNoPFuMFO51+M+Q1UXL+W4kjHybHmoiRTOFWtSbw=; b=d6uOwejwA2P6U6MNR9xDJF+9NiQvlHbSlvhmeiIQFD9I+G+ZGbwsVTPNJ3qbxVRk XyHSkKsE8Po+djB7FSfkWn0DJJWXZ7myC8K7ggU1BcctAl+tfdRTzFJzOWmaUy/SrxK dA4hrfAi2k/+TUu3mUBnZY4upHmLuwv/9ZwjxN6g= Subject: Re: Shutdown causing reboot in EC2 To: Rafal Lukawiecki , freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org References: From: Colin Percival Message-ID: <0100015f63f819ed-fde905a7-3a95-474e-838a-7883549e0430-000000@email.amazonses.com> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:12:04 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SES-Outgoing: 2017.10.28-54.240.8.60 Feedback-ID: 1.us-east-1.Lv9FVjaNvvR5llaqfLoOVbo2VxOELl7cjN0AOyXnPlk=:AmazonSES X-BeenThere: freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "FreeBSD on cloud platforms \(EC2, GCE, Azure, etc.\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:12:13 -0000 On 10/28/17 06:44, Rafal Lukawiecki wrote: > I am using Colin’s AWS marketplace FreeBSD 11 image. Technically it's the FreeBSD project's image. :-) It only says "Sold by Colin Percival" in the Marketplace for historical reasons -- my account got some special flags set years ago, and Amazon hasn't gotten the paperwork done to get the release engineering account flagged the same way. All the builds are done by re@. > When I issue (as root): > > shutdown -h now > > it shuts down…and then reboots in 18 seconds. [...] > > I thought that 'shutdown -h now' was supposed to place > the machine in a halted state, is this supposed to behave differently on > AWS EC2? I guess the obvious question here is "what does it mean for a virtual machine to be halted but not powered off"? -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid