Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-104 Severity: minor
The manual page reads: DESCRIPION ... The value string is not parsed for environmental substitutions, thus lines like PATH = $HOME/bin:$PATH SUGGESTION Instead of hard coding the absolute path names, like: PATH=/home/foo/bin:/usr/bin/:/bin Please suggest in the manual, that the tilde(~) character could be used in most shells: where the spaces around the equal-sign (=) are optional, and any subsequent non-leading spaces in value will be part of the value assigned to name. The value string may be placed in quotes (single or double, but matching) to preserve leading or trailing blanks. The value string is not parsed for environmental substitutions, thus lines like PATH = $HOME/bin:$PATH will not work as you might expect. => where the spaces around the equal-sign (=) are optional, and any subsequent non-leading spaces in value will be part of the value assigned to name. The value string may be placed in quotes (single or double, but matching) to preserve leading or trailing blanks. The value string is not parsed for environmental substitutions, thus lines like PATH = $HOME/bin:$PATH + will not work as you might expect. However many shells will treat the tilde(~) as + substiution of $HOME, so you might use: + + SHELL=/bin/bash + PATH=~/bin:/usr/bin/:/bin -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages cron depends on: ii adduser 3.107 add and remove users and groups ii debianutils 2.28.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libpam0g 0.99.7.1-6 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 2.0.59-1 SELinux shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-9 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip Versions of packages cron recommends: ii exim4 4.69-2 meta-package to ease Exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-2+b1 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]