> There really ought to be a --nocolor option for emerge, alongside the > --nospinner option. (I know I could add it to FEATURES in make.conf but I > dont want to do that). I run emerge --sync from cron on my servers - the > email from cron contains a lot of control codes.
Here's how I accomplish that from cron: emerge --pretend --update --deep world 1>/var/log/update.report echo "Report generated, mailing to root." echo "" strings /var/log/update.report > /var/log/update.rpt.txt mail -s "Server Portage Update Report" root < /var/log/update.rpt.txt /bin/rm -f /var/log/update.rpt.txt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
