yum update in background

[subsolar at subsolar.com (Paul)]

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 10:54 -0600, mbest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > greetings,
> >
> > is it a proper way and/or good idea to perform a yum update in the
> > background like this?
> >
> > yum -y update &
> >
> > at this moment, i do not have as reliable of an "wireless access
> > connection"
> > to the remote server machine at the data center as i would like and i want
> > to take this one box from 4.1 to latest 4.2
> 
> use screen or nohup?

I would vote for screen myself.

Paul