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"