From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New openssh install message?
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:15:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003130115.24535.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100312230212.7c8f9e65@digimed.co.uk>
On Saturday 13 March 2010 01:02:12 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:23:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > >> Has anything changed about this? I'm updating a remote machine and
> > >> don't want to lose connectivity.
> > >
> > > Probably what the writer of that message meant is to update the
> > > config files with dispatch-conf and the like. I don't know to what
> > > else "merge" could refer.
> >
> > Thanks. OK, so I did a restart and I can still ssh in so things seem OK.
>
> With a remote machine, I always restart SSH, leave the current shell open
> and open a new one from another terminal. The old session will continue
> to work when you shut down sshd, so if the new install is somehow broken,
^^^^^^^^^
restart
Some noobs might get confused ;-)
> you still have the access you need to fix it.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-12 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-12 19:07 [gentoo-user] New openssh install message? Mark Knecht
2010-03-12 19:16 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2010-03-12 19:23 ` Mark Knecht
2010-03-12 23:02 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-12 23:04 ` Mark Knecht
2010-03-12 23:15 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2010-03-13 11:09 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-12 19:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Mike Edenfield
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