OK, closing then. Thank you for your quick reply! ** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to cron in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1148594 Title: [12.04] crontab -e is not showing PATH in the example, so the example with tar will fail Status in “cron” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: crontab -e is showing # # Each task to run has to be defined through a single line # indicating with different fields when the task will be run # and what command to run for the task # # To define the time you can provide concrete values for # minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon), # and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').# # Notice that tasks will be started based on the cron's system # daemon's notion of time and timezones. # # Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through # email to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected). # # For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts # at 5 a.m every week with: # 0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/ # # For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8) # # m h dom mon dow command There is no line with PATH but in the example tar is used (instead of /bin/tar), so the example should be include PATH or /bin/tar instead of tar ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: cron 3.0pl1-120ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-38.61-generic 3.2.37 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-38-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Mar 6 06:01:04 2013 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: cron UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2013-01-15 (49 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cron/+bug/1148594/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp