On 11/25/2013 05:18 PM, William Taylor wrote:
> On 11/20/2013 2:41 PM, William Taylor wrote:
>> 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"
>>
> Pat did you get this? Were you able to update the package?
>
> Thanks,
>    William

The updated package should be in sl-testing now.

Pat

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