Some of you are no doubt saying to yourself wt*? is this guy trying to do now. Well here goes...
The idea behind the following exercise is to upgrade a remote server via remote Synaptic gui Xwindow from my local station. Where by which (in theory) one could have a gui interface to perform a Synaptic package update remotely. Both station and server are RH 9. Root access on both.
Where 192.168.1.41 is my local station
and 192.168.1.7 is a remote server
I added the host to my station giving access by,
xhost +192.168.1.7
Then ssh into the remote server
ssh 192.168.1.7
and login as user then su
I issue the command to run Synaptic and send output to my station
/usr/bin/synaptic 192.168.1.41:0.0 &
I get the Synaptic screen and get the updates, then filter for upgrades, but whenever I attempt to upgrade (proceed) via Synaptic for let's say Pine I get on the terminal screen
# unregisterObserver() failed
in addition...
When trying to upgrade ssh I get the following error in a Synaptic gui error
screen
Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11 Resource
temporarily unavailable) Unable to lock the download directory
If the ssh is problem because I'm in an ssh session then I take it that a onsite
console or telnet upgrade is the only way to upgrade ssh.
However the Pine example is still an issue. I have not tried the other packages.
All comments about my possible conceptual
screwyness are welcome
I will be looking into alternatives to above but I would like to have an idea of why the errors exist.
