Disconnections from yum

[Duke Robillard]

From: Donn Tarris <donn@tarris.ca>
 > I've noticed that when attempting to "yum" updates I'm being
 > consistently dropped and have to re-enter the command to continue. Is
 > this common?

That happened to me during my initial yum update after install.
I finally did something like this:

  while true
  do
    yum update
    sleep 5
  done

and went and had a sandwich.  :-)

Duke