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