Losing ssh connection during apt upgrade

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2021-01-29 at 12:21 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> I have a remote system which is connected via wifi.  To upgrade
> packages I use ssh and
> sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt full-upgrade
> If the wifi drops out in the middle of the upgrade is there a danger
> that the system will be trashed?

Not much, but you can reduce it to zero by using the "screen" utility.
See "man screen", but in simple terms you just put "screen" in front of
any command and it will keep running even if your terminal drops out.

So "screen ssh me at host".

But read "man screen" :-)

Regards, K.

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