YUM Output

david david at daku.org
Tue Jun 22 22:32:34 UTC 2004


At 03:24 PM 6/22/2004, you wrote:
>Am Mi, den 23.06.2004 schrieb david um 0:08:
> > Folks
> >
> > I run the "yum" package from a cron job.  When it's finished, cron nicely
> > mails me a copy of the results.  BUT....since yum outputs all those
> > overwritten lines marking real-time progress, I get mail with a lot of 
> "junk".
> >
> > I think it's because yum outputs lines using CR to rewrite the line, so 
> one
> > gets
> > someprogressCRsomemoreprogressCRthelastprogressCRLF
> >
> > It looks OK on a real screen, where each line overwrites the previous, but
> > in mail it looks bad.
> >
> > Is there some way I can direct or control the output of yum to avoid the
> > "real-time" updates, and produce only the final results?
> >
>$ man yum
>
>GENERAL OPTIONS
>Most  command  line  options can be set using the configuration file as
>well and the descriptions indicate the necessary  configuration option
>to set.
>
>-d [number]     Sets  the  debugging  level  to  [number] - turns up or
>                 down the amount of things that are printed. Practical
>                 range: 0 - 10
>-e [number]     Sets the error level to [number] Practical range 0 - 10.
>                 0 means print only critical errors about which you must
>                 be told. 1 means print all errors, even ones that are
>                 not  overly  important.  1+ means print more errors (if
>                 any) -e 0 is good for cron jobs.
>
>
>So try "yum -d 0 -e 0 "
>
> > David
>
>Christoph
I guess I missed that in the "man" listing.  I'll let you know when the 
next updates occur.  Too bad yum can't detect a non-terminal output device 
and ... oh well ...





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