Bug#617898: cron.d snippets have different default PATH from crontab/cron.{daily,...}

2023-08-27 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Hello, this bug report is now twelve years old. As root users are supposed to read manpages of important commands, they are aware of the possibility to define environment variables like PATH in crontab files. So, I consider this bug as fixed, per the manpages. Best regards,

Bug#617898: cron.d snippets have different default PATH from crontab/cron.{daily,...}

2020-06-04 Thread Josip Rodin
severity 617898 normal thanks Hi, Recently I added a logrotate setup that was very similar to apache2's, but I ran it from a cron.d file, and it obviously failed because the normal logrotate runs from /etc/crontab, which has a different PATH set. I think this is not a wishlist item to change