well i just got my VPS, and im running centos 4.3, but whenever i update the os with yum -y update ; yup -y upgrade , my server just locks me out from ssh. so i was wondering how can i update and not get locked out? i think that the update is replacing my current config but how do i stop this from happening? ive had to rebuild the server many times and its getting annoying.
What are the updates that yum is installing? Watching what's been upgraded, and interactively doing this yourself is sometimes better than doing: yum -y upgrade Code (markup): It's asking for trouble.
figured this is out, when you upgrade centos to 4.5 it deletes entries in the /dev folder, i untarred a new dev in there so its fine now... thanks for the help
Wow, that's very strange. I have upgraded hundreds of servers to CentOS 4.5 and have never seen that happen. I guess it could be how your VPS is set up though.
maybe, im running on openvz with hypervm, the reason i found out is because hypervm has a special button to untarring a /dev folder, pretty weird bug.
Yes, this is a bug, which is fixed by using "Fix CentOS 4.x dev" option. Though, this can' be prevented and thus they added a fix button