Kevin and Nancy wrote on Monday, February 23, 2009 11:13 AM: > Ok, I take it back. "setup.exe -q" will work on an SSH remote > connection. It remains to be seen if it actually updates packages, but > a GUI setup display did not appear on the the local Windows display with > a remotely invoked "setup.exe -q". Thus, I question if "setup.exe -q" > on a remote SSH session will actually update anything. Cygnus for > Windows is "da bom" in my book. You guys have been great in your > comments. Usually postings like this for me results in virtual blank > stares.
We have a system that uses rlogin to update remote machines with 'setup -q' and it works just fine. Since setup is a Windows app, it displays on the remote machine. Of course, when using -q, there isn't much to see but a flickering window as setup non-interactively goes through the install/upgrade process. Setup even returns an error condition if anything went wrong. A couple of gotchas, though: *) Since setup remembers the last download location and mirror, etc., it is a good idea to use the command line flags to set these options every time, so you know exactly what it will be doing. *) Running setup non-interactively will bypass warnings (IIRC) about files-in-use, so if you've got Cygwin processes running, you will need to reboot after upgrading. You'll have to check the setup log files to see if there were any files-in-use. Obviously, though, the ideal situation is to stop all Cygwin processes before running setup :) HTH > In reply to Kevin and Nancy, sent at 2009-02-23 7:44 AM : >> >> I have seen the options that allow to expedite the update process with >> a command line, and the GUI is still displayed. I don't think this >> works if you're trying to use these options from a SSH remote access, >> i.e. you'd still need access to Windows to run the setup so the GUI >> can be displayed. (I'm not sure on this point exactly. Seems like I >> tried it.) I will look a the link for the source, to see how >> difficult it may be to assist. >> Kevin >> >> In reply to Larry Hall (Cygwin), sent at 2009-02-22 10:05 PM : >>> Ralph Hempel wrote: >>>> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>>> >>>>> No, it's only the 289th time, which probably accounts for why you couldn't >>>>> find it with Google. ;-) These kinds of features are missing from >>>>> 'setup.exe' because there hasn't been a volunteer contributor for them. >>>>> If you're interested in contributing something, see the link below: >>>> >>>> OK, the update of setup is not supported, but setup DOES in fact >>>> allow fully command line based operation. I know because I moaned >>>> about it, collected and tested patches, and even contributed a minor >>>> fix to the option parsing. >>> >>> That's true but I believe the OP was lamenting that there wasn't a >>> version that didn't still have the GUI even when run from the command >>> line. If I'm wrong, then I'm sure you've made the OP's day. :-) -- Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com -- 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/
