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