On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 10:54 -0600, mbest at pendragon.org wrote: > > greetings, > > > > is it a proper way and/or good idea to perform a yum update in the > > background like this? > > > > yum -y update & > > > > at this moment, i do not have as reliable of an "wireless access > > connection" > > to the remote server machine at the data center as i would like and i want > > to take this one box from 4.1 to latest 4.2 > > use screen or nohup? I would vote for screen myself. Paul