On 11/20/2013 6:41 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote:
> On 11/19/2013 12:14 AM, Elias Persson wrote:
>> 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)
>
> I believe I've gotten the behaviour fixed.
>
> I've tossed the updated package into SL6's testing repo (sl-testing).
>
> Source at:
> https://cdcvs.fnal.gov/redmine/projects/scientificlinux/repository/yum-autoupdate
>
>
Thanks Pat! I'm still testing but noticed this bug:

--- /etc/cron.daily/yum-autoupdate.orig 2013-11-20 14:38:49.562221379 -0800
+++ /etc/cron.daily/yum-autoupdate      2013-11-20 14:39:06.775719524 -0800
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@
                if [ "$DEBUG" = "true" ] ; then
                        echo "The yum --skip-broken enabled"
                fi
-               SKIP_BROKEN='--security'
+               SKIP_BROKEN='--skip-broken'
        else
                if [ "$DEBUG" = "true" ] ; then
                        echo "The yum will not use --skip-broken"