On Fri, 01 Sep 2006, Igor Peshansky might have said: > On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Mike wrote: > > > When cygwin is installed in a bunch of boxes already, > > is there a way to ssh into the box (ssh is already setup, > > etc) and execute Cygwin's setup.exe to have setup pull > > updated packages from an internal, local mirror? > > If you allow the sshd service to interact with the desktop, you *should* > be able to run Cygwin setup.exe in unattended mode (run "setup --help" and > look in the log for the option summary). However, I would recommend first > doing it on a machine that you have console access to, just in case the > "Installation complete" popup is still displayed in unattended mode or > something. Also, you will not be able to update any files that sshd > itself uses (which includes cygwin1.dll) unless you also execute a > "shutdown -r" from your ssh session. > HTH, > Igor
That helps a bunch. Silly me I kept trying the windows convention asking for help (/?) instead of the unix one. Mike -- 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/
