manpages are wrong about PATH inheriting from the environment now
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cron (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Hirsute |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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/
These should be fixed I think. There might be other spots that I didn't notice yet too.
description: | updated |
tags: | added: fr-1271 |
tags: | removed: rls-hh-incoming |
Changed in cron (Ubuntu Hirsute): | |
milestone: | none → hirsute-updates |
Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) has reached end of life, so this bug will not be fixed for that specific release.