X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Updating cygwin from a remote shell? Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:07:28 -0700 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <3d8b047a0807080258h5f0ffe3fn24bc11e43e6d96ea@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) In-Reply-To: <3d8b047a0807080258h5f0ffe3fn24bc11e43e6d96ea@mail.gmail.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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... There is no yum, apt, up2date, etc. You don't need VNC. RDP is already on XP machines. Use rdesktop(1). -- Andrew DeFaria If I want your opinion, I'll ask you to fill out the necessary forms. -- 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/