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Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon




On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Yotam Rubin wrote:

> That's not necessary. sshd is forked for every incoming connection. It is
> possible to connect to ssh, shut down the listening process and the session
> will remain unharmed. Then you would go about installing sshd as normal,.
> there's no reason to run two listening sshd's concurrently.

that is necessary, since if your active connection(s) die (e.g. the box
gets rebooted due to power outage, or something similar) during the
process - you're _possibly_ locked out, in case your new install isn't
done properly.

shlomi's doing things the same way. you and nadav are doing things the
careless way. you'll get there faster if it works, but shlomi has a
smaller 'Tochelet' (how's that called in english), if you account for both
successfull and unsuccesfull installations.

the good and carefull remote (sometimes also local) sysadmin will use
shlomi's method for this single reason.

--
guy

"For world domination - press 1,
 or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy


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