On 2013-11-18 21:38, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> well if you want that then you need to create a bash script for cron to execute
> in the script you put the output of the yum command to a variable via
> a back tick and then you use an if statement to check the results of
> $? to determine whether to echo the contents of the variable to
> standard out triggering cron to send an email, or to unset the
> variable and exit.
>

That seems to work.

   output="$(yum --disablerepo='*' install kedddrnel 2>&1)"
   echo "RC: $?"
   echo "Output:"
   echo "$output"

(at least in bash)