On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Tilman Schmidt
<t.schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx
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