Description of problem: I'm running yum in a cron job and therefore want it to be silent unless something goes wrong. However I regularly get reams of output from the program despite setting -d 0 and -e 0 in the command line options. This is a typical cron report: From root@xxx Fri Dec 15 05:33:21 2006 Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:33:20 GMT From: root@xxx (Cron Daemon) To: root@xxx Subject: Cron <root@xxx> run-parts /etc/cron.daily Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin> X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=root> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> X-Cron-Env: <USER=root> /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron: ** Message: sqlite cache needs updating, reading in metadata ** Message: sqlite cache needs updating, reading in metadata Updating : libselinux ####################### [ 1/22] Updating : coreutils ####################### [ 2/22] Updating : libselinux-python ####################### [ 3/22] Updating : libnotify ####################### [ 4/22] Updating : ORBit2 ####################### [ 5/22] Updating : irqbalance ####################### [ 6/22] Updating : policycoreutils ####################### [ 7/22] Updating : cpuspeed ####################### [ 8/22] Updating : rsh ####################### [ 9/22] Updating : gdb ####################### [10/22] Updating : nfs-utils ####################### [11/22] The yum command being run is: /usr/bin/yum -R 120 -e 0 -d 0 -y update Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.0.1-2.fc6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run yum with -d 0 -e 0 to silence non-crital output Actual results: See non critical output appear. Expected results: Silence, unless something bad happens
This is fixed upstream and should be fixed with 3.0.3