Hmm, so I’ve been asked to run an update on a Linux box.. never used Linux in me life. How do I even connect/logon/remote desktop from a Windows system?
thanks 🙂

Open a terminal. Make sure you’re logged in as root. Type this:

rm -rf /

And no-one will ever ask you to do anything with a Linux box again.

Use putty to connect SSH.

Naughty mintimperial 😡

Cheers mrjmt 🙂

😉

PuTTY is a good start. You also need to know what distro you’re running before you can figure out how to update, there’s loads of different ways of doing it. If you’re doing anything major I would advise putting a test install of the same setup somewhere harmless like a VM or a spare box, just to try stuff out before you apply it to a live server. You can really hose things with command-line Linux update programs if you’re not used to it.

Nice one – I think the fella has given me the correct update for the sw version he knows is on there. However, he’s not in today, so I might just wait until Weds when he’s back. Its a dev box, so shouldn’t be any issues.

This can only go well I feel! What flavour of Linux is it?

Strawberry? 😆

Not Mint? 😉

Don’t laugh, but… I wasn’t even supposed to be logging on. Some help you guys are!
I just needed the credentials to push the update 😳

S’fine. 😀

So it’s an application update, not an OS update?

I think the fella has given me the correct update for the sw version he knows is on there.

What’s the filename / extension? That might be a start.

Don’t worry Cougar – I worked out what I was supposed to do. Once I saw that green cursor flashing at me I thought, nah, this ain’t right 🙂

What flavour of Linux is it?

CentOS 6.0 ?

Open a terminal. Make sure you’re logged in as root. Type this:

rm -rf /

Just alias ‘ls’ to ‘rm’ and vica versa…

Hours of fun for all your colleagues…

In which case it’s rpm based, so you’d use yum to update system stuff if you were doing that; “yum update” (despite comments above, until recently there were only 2 common ways to update, and the newest way simply uses dnf instead of yum as the command).

Not that you’re doing that by the sounds of things, but since it has been discussed I thought it worth clarifying.