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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