On 2016-01-19 04:01, Humphrey van Polanen Petel wrote: > Just so you know, it *is* a cron command. > Gnome Schedule is nothing but a pretty gui to crontab.
And that pretty GUI is from an entirely separate package than package cron, against which you reported the bug. > I suggest you be a bit more charitable when reading bug reports. Please follow your own suggestion. I already explained how cron works: via crontabs, ie plaintext files in a specific directory. If a client program (be it from Gnome, KDE, or whatever) uses this interface incorrectly, then it is up to the client program to fix this. Hence why I said "you'll have to report it against Gnome". If you had read crontab(5) as I suggested, then you would know that to modify the $PATH of a job, one must specify a PATH variable in the crontab file. You seem to expect Gnome Schedule to do this for you (when it presumably generates a crontab), but evidently it isn't doing it. That is clearly not a problem in cron, but in Gnome Schedule. > After some study of the documentation, I have come to the conclusion > that cron/crontab is very much in need of a revamp. Certainly, it does > the job, but then that depends on how the job-requirements are defined. > To be sure, it is probably very difficult and much more complex than I > can imagine, but being used to the Windows Task Scheduler I suggest that > it could be a lot more user-friendly. I agree that the mode in which cron operates is antiquated. Nevertheless, it is mandated by POSIX: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/crontab.html More powerful job schedulers exist, but the intention behind cron is to provide a simple, consistent, and ever-present interface in POSIX-compliant environments. Regards, Christian -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1534377 Title: cron does not read $PATH To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cron/+bug/1534377/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
