I hope i understand your network setup correctly (i had to fill in a few blanks with sane defaults).

Probably the easiest solution would be to write a batch script on one of the windows boxes that runs the the CPAN-Mini update (mcpani --update) and then "rsync -e ssh..." to on of the unix boxes.

If the Perl installation on the Windows box is configured correctly (Proxy settings in ENV http_proxy and whatnot) and you install rsync for Windows, this should pretty much work. After verifying, you could add that to the planned tasks, so it runs every day/wee/month automatically.

What i don't understand is this: How do you install security updates and such on your Unix boxes if they can't download from the internet? Manually?? That sounds like a security problem in itself...

"For me, programming in Perl is like my cooking. The result may not always taste nice, but it's quick, painless and it get's food on the table."

In reply to Re: Is there a place to download a pre-built CPAN::Mini mirror? by cavac
in thread Is there a place to download a pre-built CPAN::Mini mirror? by davidfilmer

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