Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:12:04 +0000 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> To: Rafal Lukawiecki <raf@rafal.net>, freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shutdown causing reboot in EC2 Message-ID: <0100015f63f819ed-fde905a7-3a95-474e-838a-7883549e0430-000000@email.amazonses.com> In-Reply-To: <C64770A8-97A4-4D32-A049-6F53495E0304@rafal.net> References: <C64770A8-97A4-4D32-A049-6F53495E0304@rafal.net>
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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
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