>
>> linked to SSH terminating the connection after running some updates.
>> So, I wanted to get some advice on how you all handle keeping control 
>> of your remote Gentoo servers, and for instance how to keep SSH 
>> running at all costs.
>
There is a program out there that handles this very well, called monit 
(http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/)
You can run this program out of /etc/inittab so that it is always 
running, and it will make sure that your ssh daemon gets restarted if 
something happens. I run monit on every server I have in production.
Hope this helps..
-John

John Barton
jbarton@...