[CentOS] when to reboot after updates
Rainer Duffner
rainer at ultra-secure.de
Thu Apr 9 17:36:32 UTC 2009
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
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