Description of problem: yum-cron produces unexpected output if CHECK_ONLY=yes Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-cron-0.5-1.fc7 How reproducible: set CHECK_ONLY=yes in /etc/sysconfig/yum-cron, run /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron You will see '^M' sequence on the screen if any updates are present because of echo "`/usr/bin/yum -e 0 -d 0 -y -C check-update`^M" Additional info: touch $LOCKFILE is not an atomic operation, so it won't serve the purpose of preventing two instances running if two processes will start exactly at the same time. The proper solution would be mkdir $LOCKFILE 2>/dev/null || exit , well, you got the idea.
Thanks for catching this bit of cut-n-paste disease, I should be using escape characters rather than embedded ctrl sequences anyway. Fixing...
yum-cron-0.6-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update yum-cron'
yum-cron-0.6-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.