Les Mikesell schrieb:
You have some chance of 'knowing' the server side of things - a lot less about what other users might be running. What should you expect if you have logged in users over freenx, remote X or at the console running (say) firefox through an update? Or other long running applications, especially in languages likely to dynamically load new components.
And in one case, I got kicked off of my ssh connection in mid-update. I'm still not sure what happened there but I had to install yum-utils and run yum-recover-transaction to continue.
screen(1) might help here
I include it in my default-install nowadays. One suid-binary more, but it's there once you need it.
Rainer