Re: Updating cygwin from a remote shell?

[Andrew DeFaria <Andrew at DeFaria 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).
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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