Making yum daily update more talkative.

[Jim Thario]

Piotr Goczal wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> How to make yum daily update more talkative? I would like to be not SPAMed 
> with messages about "connecting to fedora serwers" and information that:
> 
> No Packages Available for Update No actions to take,
> 
> but I must to know that some packages has been upgraded!
> I've tried with combinations of -e and -d parameters but I haven't got any 
> resonable output.
> Could somebody help me?
> 
> Best regards
> 

The super-simple approach is to have a cron job mail you the 
/var/log/yum.log file on a daily basis. It will have the updates listed 
in there.