up2date

[Jurvis LaSalle]

On Jun 21, 2004, at 9:07 PM, Ryan Golhar wrote:

> But, isn't that the point of up2date --nox, to not require X?
>
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> Subject: Re: up2date
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>
>
> On Jun 21, 2004, at 5:56 PM, Ryan Golhar wrote:
>
>> Here's an interesting note:  If I don't have a X-Windows Server
>> running locally (ReflectionX, etc), then up2date doesn't work even
>> though I want to use it in command-line mode...
>>
>> Shouldn't it just function as expected without trying to establish an
>> X connection?
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Golhar
>> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 5:46 PM
>> To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
>> Subject: up2date
>>
>>
>> Recently, I've been trying to run up2date remotely via a shell.
>> Whenever
>> I run up2date with or without and parameters, it just drops me back to
>> the shell.  I can't figure out why its not working the way its
> supposed
>> to.  I did modify the config file for up2date to remove packages from
>> the skipList.  It was working previously, as I only noticed this
>> problem
>> recently...has anyone else seen this before?
>>
>> -----
>> Ryan Golhar
>> Computational Biologist
>> The Informatics Institute at
>> The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ
>
> up2date defaults to being an X11 app unless you use --nox (obligatory
> 'man up2date' suggestion) .  If you've got the bandwidth to use X, try
> 'ssh -XC user at remotehost up2date'.
>
> hth,
> Jurvis LaSalle
>

I have successfully tested this today.

%ssh remotehost 'up2date-nox -u'

this also worked

%ssh remotehost 'up2date --nox -u'

i was also able to switch the -u to --configure and do it all without 
X11.  What exactly have tried?  Just in case it matters, I've got 
up2date-4.2.16-1 on taroonU2.

hth,
Jurvis LaSalle