[olug] Remote Mandrake Update

[Sean Edwards]

You can Secure CoPy (SCP) over ssh.  If you copy files
up via scp, you can ssh into the box and install them
locally.

I do believe there is a way to run webmin via ssh, or
a webmin-ssh project.

-=Sean Edwards=-
cybersean3000 at yahoo.com

--- Ed Carlsen <edcarlsen at cox.net> wrote:
> Help!
> Some (other) volunteers at my church set up a
> Mandrake 9.1 server
> behind a router. They want (me) run a web page over
> the Qwest DSL line so they gave me the root password
> and used the router to redirect the SSH port (22?)
> to the mandrake box, so I have a console connection.
> No GUI interface.
> The church is normally locked so physical access is
> tough.
> They did not (and do not want) to redirect any other
> port, this rules out webmin.
> Apache2 is running but not PHP or mySQL.
> I want to remotely load and install PHP and MySQL
> using urpmi
> but I believe it will ask for the CDROM's. Is there
> any way to disable loading of software from the
> CDROM and force an internet download and install?
> 
> Thanks for any ideas
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