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 Hi William, Thanks for the patch! I'll get it applied today. Pat -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux developer http://www.scientificlinux.org/