Public bug reported:
I posted this on bug #1779767 but since that got closed it's probably
going to be lost there.
tl;dr the manpage(s) needs to be fixed for this change as well:
Julian, thanks for the fix. In crontab(5) in cron 3.0pl1-136ubuntu2 the
manpage is now wrong. It says:
> Several environment variables are set up automatically by the cron(8)
daemon. […] PATH is set to "/usr/bin:/bin". HOME, SHELL, and PATH may be
overridden by settings in the crontab […]
and also
> On the Debian GNU/Linux system, cron supports the pam_env module, and
loads the environment specified by /etc/environment and
/etc/security/pam_env.conf. It also reads locale information from
/etc/default/locale. However, the PAM settings do NOT override the
settings described above nor any settings in the crontab file itself.
Note in particular that if you want a PATH other than "/usr/bin:/bin",
you will need to set it in the crontab file.
These should be fixed I think. There might be other spots that I didn't
notice yet too.
** Affects: cron (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: rls-hh-incoming
** Description changed:
I posted this on bug #1779767 but since that got closed it's probably
going to be lost there.
tl;dr the manpage(s) needs to be fixed for this change as well:
- Julian, thanks for the fix. In crontab(5) in cron 3.0pl1-136ubuntu2 the
manpage
- is now wrong. It says:
+ Julian, thanks for the fix. In crontab(5) in cron 3.0pl1-136ubuntu2 the
+ manpage is now wrong. It says:
> Several environment variables are set up automatically by the cron(8)
daemon. […] PATH is set to "/usr/bin:/bin". HOME, SHELL, and PATH may be
overridden by settings in the crontab […]
and also
> On the Debian GNU/Linux system, cron supports the pam_env module, and
loads the environment specified by /etc/environment and
/etc/security/pam_env.conf. It also reads locale information from
/etc/default/locale. However, the PAM settings do NOT override the
settings described above nor any settings in the crontab file itself.
Note in particular that if you want a PATH other than "/usr/bin:/bin",
you will need to set it in the crontab file.
These should be fixed I think. There might be other spots that I didn't
notice yet too.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1922681
Title:
manpages are wrong about PATH inheriting from the environment now
Status in cron package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I posted this on bug #1779767 but since that got closed it's probably
going to be lost there.
tl;dr the manpage(s) needs to be fixed for this change as well:
Julian, thanks for the fix. In crontab(5) in cron 3.0pl1-136ubuntu2
the manpage is now wrong. It says:
> Several environment variables are set up automatically by the
cron(8) daemon. […] PATH is set to "/usr/bin:/bin". HOME, SHELL, and
PATH may be overridden by settings in the crontab […]
and also
> On the Debian GNU/Linux system, cron supports the pam_env module,
and loads the environment specified by /etc/environment and
/etc/security/pam_env.conf. It also reads locale information from
/etc/default/locale. However, the PAM settings do NOT override the
settings described above nor any settings in the crontab file itself.
Note in particular that if you want a PATH other than
"/usr/bin:/bin", you will need to set it in the crontab file.
These should be fixed I think. There might be other spots that I
didn't notice yet too.
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