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Originally Posted by deed02392
Dist-upgrading over SSH is fine (and necessary on my headless leased server), I just forgot to do it in a screen session. That would have prevented any issues. Although not the inconvenience.
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Usually, but not garunteed. Ive had sshd fall over during an upgrade process. Not just disconnect, but completely fall over, now that DOES make a mess (and cost a service ticket for them to go and hard reboot the box). That wasn't exactly a network issue, but did highlight to me how risky dist-upgrade over ssh actually was. We invested in a KVM-over-ip for that now. Yes, an expensive solution, but less expensive than downtime and service tickets.
Running it inside screen is a good option if your network tends to disconnect however.