Am 25.02.2013 15:56, schrieb m.roth at 5-cent.us: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> Then there is the actual update. I learned long ago NOT to run yum over >> an SSH connection, as WHEN that connection breaks in the middle of an >> update, you can have quite a problem to clean up. All I have done > > That sounds, to me, as though you have very serious communications issues > that need to be solved, and yesterday. We've used ssh here, and at my > previous two? three? contracts, for years, and almost *never* have an ssh > connection break. It does happen. SSH is not as forgiving to network glitches as one would wish sometimes. A firewall that drops idle or long-running TCP connections, a DSL link doing its daily PPPoE disconnect at an inopportune moment, a VPN tunnel dropping, a hole in UMTS coverage, have all killed a SSH connection for me one time or another. -- Tilman Schmidt Phoenix Software GmbH Bonn, Germany -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 260 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20130225/356325a6/attachment-0005.sig>