9 Apr
2009
9 Apr
'09
9:21 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
I had done the --downloadonly - and the disconnect wasn't network related as other connections to the same site stayed up. It seemed like something in the cleanup pass killed sshd - and the running yum, leaving a mess. The transaction recovery list was mostly erasing the old packages. But, this only happened on one machine out of many upgraded in exactly the same way so I don't really understand it.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com
Sounds like something else interfered. I wouldn't blame this on updating.
But yeah: screen. I used to write database update scripts that would refuse to run unless the user was running in a screen session.