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... Thanks. -- 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/