CentOS - Oct 2005 - yum update in background

> greetings,
>
> is it a proper way and/or good idea to perform a yum update in the
> background like this?
>
> yum -y update &
>
> at this moment, i do not have as reliable of an "wireless access
> connection"
> to the remote server machine at the data center as i would like and i want
> to take this one box from 4.1 to latest 4.2
use screen or nohup?

-Mike

greetings,

is it a proper way and/or good idea to perform a yum update in the
background like this?

yum -y update &

at this moment, i do not have as reliable of an "wireless access
connection"
to the remote server machine at the data center as i would like and i want
to take this one box from 4.1 to latest 4.2

comments please?

thanks!

 - rh

--
Robert Hanson - Abba Communications
Computer & Internet Services 
www.abbacomm.net

On Oct 19, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Robert wrote:
> greetings,
>
> is it a proper way and/or good idea to perform a yum update in the
> background like this?
>
> yum -y update &
>
> at this moment, i do not have as reliable of an "wireless access  
> connection"
> to the remote server machine at the data center as i would like and  
> i want
> to take this one box from 4.1 to latest 4.2
>
> comments please?
>
> thanks!
>
>  - rh
>
> --
> Robert Hanson - Abba Communications
> Computer & Internet Services
> www.abbacomm.net
>
Use screen.

http://jmcpherson.org/screen.html
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Using_screen

Michael Grinnell
Network Security Administrator
The American University
e-mail: grinnell at american.edu