On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Tilman Schmidt <t.schmidt at phoenixsoftware.de> wrote: >>> >> 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. Yum is fairly forgiving about interruptions these days. Normally you can do a yum-complete-transaction to pick up where you left off, although I did have a problem with that once when I forgot and ran an update that included freenx in a freenx session. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com