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The risk is anything else dropping your connection while an interactive long-running process is going. You can nohup, or run inside something like screen/tmux,
by ycombobreaker 1y ago
The risk is anything else dropping your connection while an interactive long-running process is going. You can nohup, or run inside something like screen/tmux,
- throwaway173738 1y agoA thoughtfully designed upgrade system doesn’t do the real work side your terminal session in the interactive process.
- ycombobreaker 1y agoDefense in depth is always valuable. The point of this thread is that screen protects your workflow from an unexpected disconnection.
- esseph 1y agoYou're not wrong, but largely in the virtualized world we live in, it matters less and less when you have a virtual console. That said the sshd session you are connected on is still running the old executable until the service is restarted AND your session ends, so even if sshd gets upgraded, you should still be good to go.