On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:50:47PM -0600, Pat Maddox wrote:
> Huh?  How about the many many production machines located at remote
> datacenters?  How do people upgrade those?

Personally speaking, by making sure I have a suitable backup plan for
when something unexpected happens (usually serial console).

> I've personally done hundreds of remote upgrades without ever
> rendering a machine unrecoverable.

Me too, but also some where something went wrong (power failure at
critical moment, change to kernel configuration I forgot to adapt for,
mis-merged /etc leading to sshd not starting, etc).

Kris

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