https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48475
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Bug ID: 48475
Summary: $PATH is different in interactive shells and cron jobs
Product: Wikimedia Labs
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: tools
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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PATH for interactive shells is
$HOME/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games,
for cron jobs it's set to /usr/bin:/bin. Fixing this would require patching
cron. (BTW: Ubuntu ships the original ISC cron? In 2013? Really?)
As for example $HOME/bin is added by ~/.profile, a good case could be made that
instead of chasing cars^W^Wtrying to emulate the individual user's interactive
environment in cron, it would be much more efficient to educate users to add
"PATH=..." as the first line to their crontab.
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