[CentOS] when to reboot after updates
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 19:39:21 UTC 2009
Brian Mathis wrote:
> 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.
>>
>
> Sounds like something else interfered. I wouldn't blame this on updating.
I don't like to jump to conclusions, but I stay connected over this link
for months at a time - and the only unusual thing going on was the
cleanup script exection for the updates. I do have an assortment of 3rd
party packages installed so it might not have been a stock Centos rpm,
though.
> But yeah: screen. I used to write database update scripts that would
> refuse to run unless the user was running in a screen session.
I suspect that whatever it was, it killed the processes out from under
the connection instead of the other way around - so screen probably
wouldn't have helped.
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Les Mikesell
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