Sven Joachim on 20/06/08 15:06, wrote:
> On 2008-06-20 15:58 +0200, Adam Hardy wrote:
>
>> Those upgrade instructions warn:
>>
>> "Important! You should not upgrade using telnet, rlogin, rsh, or from
>> an X session managed by xdm, gdm or kdm etc on the machine you are
>> upgrading. That is because each of those services may well be
>> terminated during the upgrade, which can result in an inaccessible
>> system that is only half-upgraded."
>>
>> Do you think ssh is deliberately excluded from that list of remote shells?
>
> Yes, see the same section:
>
> ,----
> | The distribution upgrade should be done either locally from a textmode
> | virtual console (or a directly connected serial terminal), or remotely
> | via an ssh link.
> |
> | In order to gain extra safety margin when upgrading remotely, we suggest
> | that you run upgrade processes in the virtual console provided by the
> | screen program, which enables safe reconnection and ensures the upgrade
> | process is not interrupted even if the remote connection process fails.
> `----
What's the 'virtual console provided by the screen program'? Some sort of
bolt-on to ssh?
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