Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:31 PM, David Hrbáč <david-lists at hrbac.cz> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> We update all the boxes over ssh. Works fine. Those who are afraid of >> disconnections may always run it within tmux/screen session. As to >> managing the whole infra, the best tool for that is Spacewalk, but it >> might be too big for you. So, you can have nagios to check yum status on >> all the boxes. There is also a tool called apt-dater, see >> http://www.ibh.de/apt-dater/ Regardless the "APT" in the name it handles >> yum well. > > I don't remember if I've tried this or not, but it should work to simply: > nohup yum -y update & > and disconnect (or not....). Nohup will redirect stdout and stderr to > a file named nohup.out that you can check later if you haven't already > redirected elsewhere and disconnects the command from the terminal > session so it won't be killed if you log out or disconnect. I can guarantee that I've started a yum update late in the day, and for some reason the network was *very* slow, and there were a lot of updates, and I just bg'd it and logged out, and it was finished later that evening. mark