Update crontab(5) manpage to match new behaviour

Bug #1938924 reported by Graham Inggs
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cron (Ubuntu)
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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.

Tags: fr-1550
Graham Inggs (ginggs)
tags: added: fr-1550
summary: - Update contrab(5) manpage to match new behaviour
+ Update crontab(5) manpage to match new behaviour
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package cron - 3.0pl1-137ubuntu2

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cron (3.0pl1-137ubuntu2) impish; urgency=medium

  * Update crontab(5) manpage to match new behaviour (LP: #1938924)

 -- Graham Inggs <email address hidden> Fri, 06 Aug 2021 10:59:44 +0000

Changed in cron (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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