Public bug reported:
From LP: #1779767 comment 13:
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
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1938924
Title:
Update contrab(5) manpage to match new behaviour
Status in cron package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
From LP: #1779767 comment 13:
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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