Update crontab(5) manpage to match new behaviour
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cron (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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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/
> It also reads locale information from /etc/default/
> 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: | added: fr-1550 |
summary: |
- Update contrab(5) manpage to match new behaviour + Update crontab(5) manpage to match new behaviour |
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