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Thomas Walker wrote: > Apologies if this is a newbie question... I did a decent amount of > looking through mailing lists but couldn't find anything relevant. > > I'm a Linux/Unix person by hobby and profession and don't really do > much Windows but my family (living in another state) is still rather > Windows centric. A hard disk failure ago I decided to place a dirt > cheap headless Linux box with mirrored raid on their network and setup > cygwin on their Windows machines so that I could cobble together an > easy backup solution based on cron, ssh, rdist, and fuse. > > That all works fine and has done so for some time. I'm a little bit > of a security nut though (and sometime also want to be able to add new > features for myself and for them) and would like to be able to easily > update cygwin and/or install new packages onto the Windows/Cygwin > boxes from a remote shell. > > I know I can setup VNC and all that fun stuff and run setup.exe but is > there an easier way? The usual yum, apt, up2date, etc. don't seem to > be options... In order to install Cygwin without a reboot (and a message asking you to close running Cygwin processes), you need a remote shell not based on Cygwin. That said (or perhaps notwithstanding), did you see? <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.cli> -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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