the logger command may be a better choice than a static file.


On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Pat Riehecky <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Let me look into it.
>
> Pat
>
>
> On 11/15/2013 07:19 PM, William Taylor wrote:
>>
>> In /etc/cron.daily/yum-autoupdate if yum exits with an error it will
>> never be considered an
>> error because cat will exit with no error. This results with errors not
>> being processed and
>> emails not going out. Can this be re-written to not rely on cat so this
>> won't happen ?
>>
>> /usr/bin/yum -c $TEMPCONFIGFILE -e 0 -d 1 -y $SECURITY update 2>&1 | cat
>>>
>>> $TEMPFILE
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>   William
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