On Feb 25, 2013, at 3:34 PM, Tilman Schmidt <t.schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am 25.02.2013 15:56, schrieb m.roth@xxxxxxxxx:
>> 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
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