On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Tonmaus <sequoiamo...@gmx.net> wrote:

> Thanks to everybody for all the suggestions so far.
>
> In case anybody bothers: my colleague remarks that on a Debian Linux system
> you don't have to do this for any commands that are in PATH of the executing
> user.
> For further insight: is there a good reason why cron uses a different
> default command set, or is this maybe even a bug?
>


This *may* be due to the recent modernization efforts to make
OpenSolaris/Solaris more friendly to new users coming from other open source
OSes like Linux and BSDs.

It probably didn't make its way into cron's environment because historically
it has been very restricted. Someone from indiana-discuss@ will probably
know the reason.

-- 
Giovanni
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