Comment 2 for bug 1317920

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: update-notifier does not user configured system proxy when downloading files with package-data-downloader

The cronjob is run from cron; cron is configured via /etc/pam.d/cron to use pam_env.so by default, which reads /etc/environment. Why is this not working on your system?

Individual cron jobs should definitely not be expected to source /etc/environment directly.