Public bug reported: I posted this on bug #1779767 but since that got closed it's probably going to be lost there.
tl;dr the manpage(s) needs to be fixed for this change as well: Julian, thanks for the fix. 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 ** Tags: rls-hh-incoming ** Description changed: I posted this on bug #1779767 but since that got closed it's probably going to be lost there. tl;dr the manpage(s) needs to be fixed for this change as well: - Julian, thanks for the fix. In crontab(5) in cron 3.0pl1-136ubuntu2 the manpage - is now wrong. It says: + Julian, thanks for the fix. 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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1922681 Title: manpages are wrong about PATH inheriting from the environment now To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cron/+bug/1922681/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs