On Feb 25, 2013, at 3:34 PM, Tilman Schmidt <t.schmidt at phoenixsoftware.de> wrote: > 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. Same here. It happens sometimes. KeepAlive yes - in the sshd config helps when things get flaky... not really to save you from the broken network, but to notice it sooner... Nate