Whenever I use the reboot command on my Linode via ssh or Lish, Lassie jumps in and tells it to boot after it shuts down. This seems to me completely unnecessary considering that the reboot command should make the Linode reboot itself without Lassie interference.

Thus far, that hasn't cause any issues, it's just a minor annoyance showing up in both my Linode Manager and RSS reader.

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Kris the Piki Geeker

It's always done that for me- it sees the box not running, so it boots. If you reboot from the Manager Dashboard everything works fine.

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Chris Bryant

Xen is unaware if you issued a shutdown or a reboot from inside your instance. All we know is that your kernel exited.

You could key Lish with your Linode instance's user, and then alias shutdown and reboot to issue jobs via Lish.

-Chris

Technically speaking, it should still be running. That's the purpose of the reboot command: to reboot the OS without turning off hardware (or in this case, the virtual hardware).

Like I said, it's just a minor annoyance. I'm not really concerned about it as long as it still works.

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Kris the Piki Geeker

It turns out that rebooting is an extraordinarily nebulous concept on x86 hardware, and it basically comes down to blindly and repeatedly poking various things until the hardware decides that something has gone terribly wrong and that the only recourse is to reboot.

By comparison, the Lassie method is remarkably reliable and effective.

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