cron.daily updated & outdated

Hi there!
We have it set up so that cron sends us an email each time a script outputs something.
Sometimes, we get a lot of emails like this:

/etc/cron.daily/crowdsec:
update for collection crowdsecurity/base-http-scenarios available (currently:1.0, latest:1.1)
crowdsecurity/nginx is outdated because of collections:crowdsecurity/base-http-scenarios

/etc/cron.daily/crowdsec:
update for collection crowdsecurity/base-http-scenarios available (currently:1.0, latest:1.1)
crowdsecurity/nginx is outdated because of collections:crowdsecurity/base-http-scenarios

If I'm not mistaken, when the script outputs this, it actually does update the specific collection.
Am I right in this assumption?
If I am, is there any way to turn off these outputs, or is there any possibility this will be disabled in future updates?
We have almost a hundred machines, so when an update comes out, this leads to a lot of unnecessary emails.

Thanks in advance!

CrowdSec•6/10/25, 9:16 AM

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6/10/25, 9:26 AM

Aalukas Hi there! We have it set up so that cron sends us an email each time a script ou...

Loz•6/10/25, 9:23 AM

We will investigate it for next release, as I also get the same email I only get one email so not too bad for me but I know with 100 it would amplify the frustration.

Loz•6/10/25, 9:24 AM

but yes your right in your assumption it does infact do the update for you.

mmetc.•6/10/25, 9:25 AM

I'd like to add some tests for this case, can you assign me a ticket @iiamloz ? thanks

Loz•6/10/25, 9:25 AM

yeah there already an issue somewhere let me dig it out

mmetc.•6/10/25, 9:26 AM

adding a " | grep -v outdated" to cscli hub upgrade will leave the rest of the output

alukasOP•6/10/25, 9:26 AM

Thank you very much for the help guys!

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Mmmetc.adding a " | grep -v outdated" to cscli hub upgrade will leave the rest of the o...

Loz•6/10/25, 9:26 AM

the issue is the script uses the stdout to detect changes, so I think it be more than a grep

Loz•6/10/25, 9:29 AM

@alukas you can track it via https://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec/issues/3481

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crowdsec job in daily · Issue #3481 · crowdsecurity/crowdsec

Guys, After update I have your script in cron.daily returning this and reporting daily at 7:00. Since your application is security tool and not virus - maybe try to be less intrusive ? /etc/cron.da...

mmetc.•6/10/25, 9:33 AM

No because the message is actually in stderr, and stdout is actually empty

mmetc.•6/10/25, 9:44 AM

so the whole thing would be

upgraded=$(/usr/bin/cscli --error hub upgrade 2> >(grep -v outdated))

by the way the --error flag should already filter out the warnings