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
