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)