On 2014-02-11 13:17, Ismael Bouya wrote: > (Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:56:39PM +0100) Florian Pritz : > > On 11.02.2014 11:42, Ismael Bouya wrote: > > > It's highly unpractical to me to access the machine from where I am -- > > > even remotely: I need someone to manually open a tunnel each time I want > > > to access the machine -- > > > > Set up an automatic tunnel (simple service that just runs autossh or > > similar) or use a VPN (openvpn, tinc) and do the upgrade yourself. > > That's not an option. The network on which the machine is is willingly > inaccessible from outside: The sysadmin there has the principle that "a > machine that works shouldn't be upgraded, because then it can > break"... (The machine which has Archlinux is an exception and he's not > aware of its existence) It's one thing to ask someone to manually create a > tunnel so that I can access the machine once in a while. It's another one > to bypass the sysadmin politics and risk problems if anything happens. > Can the machine download emails from a remote server? You could set something up that downloads emails from a certain mailbox, validates they're PGP signature, and runs the body as a shell script. Tedious, but it works. > > Automatic upgrades won't work if there are conflicts which sadly happens > > quite a few times every year. > > Sure, but I can do it manually then... > -- > Ismael -- Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
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