On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> 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, > you still have the access you need to fix it. >
Thanks Neil. That's exactly what I did, additionally logging in as a different user that wasn't present before the restart. Cheers, Mark
