Bug 24484

Summary:	cannot redirect output of "up2date -l"
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Matthew Boedicker <mboedick>
Component:	up2date	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Description Matthew Boedicker 2001-01-21 07:58:15 UTC

While trying to create a nightly cron job to do "up2date -l | mail
root@localhost", I get a Python traceback indicating a "Broken Pipe"
exception.

Further testing shows that any kind of output redirection (such as "up2date
-l > foo") gives the same result.

Comment 1 Matthew Boedicker 2001-01-26 01:56:45 UTC

I believe this to be a problem with the interaction between up2date and
consolehelper.  I do not have the same problem when explicitly running
/usr/sbin/up2date, without the consolehelper wrapper.

Comment 2 Preston Brown 2001-02-09 03:43:59 UTC

correct.

To run from cron as root, use /usr/sbin/up2date, not /usr/bin/up2date, which is
the "run-as-a-user" wrapper program.