[CentOS] when to reboot after updates
Brian Mathis
brian.mathis at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 19:21:48 UTC 2009
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at 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 at 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.
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