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Re: openssh remote upgrade procedure?



On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Kim N. Lesmer <knl@bitflop.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2008 20:45:20 +0100
> "Alexandros Papadopoulos" <apapadop@alumni.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> 3. Testing to see if you can still get on to a server is exactly what
>> I would have done, if my connection had not been killed by the server
>> itself a few seconds after upgrading the packages. This happened on
>> two servers running different versions of debian (etch & lenny).
>
> This is not normal. I have upgraded two of my servers where I have also
> only SSH access, and I didn't experience any breakage of the
> connection. Since you have experienced this on both an etch and a lenny
> machine, something points in the direction of, that you have done
> something wrong, perhaps with you initial setup.

I too have not experienced any problems (on Etch) with the update.
Sshd restarted fine.

You might want to check your startup script to be sure it is only
shutting down the the PID it started, instead of doing a
killall/pkill/etc.

-Jim P.


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