From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.12; Mac_PowerPC) Description of problem: using the bash shell and no X "up2date -l" prints errors on STDOUT and "up2date -p" prints errors on STDERR. When "up2date -l" is used on script, there is no possibility to access to the error output. Exit status codes are not meaningful to: up2date -l returns always (system completely updated, available update packets, up2date errors) 1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ifdown eth0 2. /usr/sbin/up2date -l 2>err 3.cat err err is empty and errors are printed to STDOUT 4./usr/sbin/up2date -p 2> err 5.cat err errors are no more printed on STDOUT Additional info:
This will be fixed with an update to usermode-1.5 or higher (the bug is an issue in the way userhelper/consolehelper was duping file descriptors)