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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com