X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject:  Re: Updating cygwin from a remote shell?
Date:  Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:07:28 -0700
Lines: 25
Message-ID: <g4vvrg$v9s$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <3d8b047a0807080258h5f0ffe3fn24bc11e43e6d96ea AT mail DOT gmail DOT 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 AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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 <http://defaria.com>
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/