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 -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux developer http://www.scientificlinux.org/