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  1. Bug #1779767
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1779767

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Iain Lane (laney) wrote :

This bug is old but I'm going to un-duplicate it. I don't believe it is fixed.

I've got a cron script on focal (cron 3.0pl1-136ubuntu1) which is indirectly running `lxc` from a snap (/snap/bin/lxc).

I found the following in mail though:

/home/ubuntu/autopkgtest/tools/autopkgtest-build-lxd: 139: lxc: not found
/home/ubuntu/autopkgtest/tools/autopkgtest-build-lxd: 1: lxc: not found

crontab(5) mentions the default as being "/usr/bin:/bin", and how it does NOT come from /etc/environment. What you have to do is set "PATH=/snap/bin:/usr/bin:/bin" at the top of the crontab file if you want to be able to use snaps. (You can't do "PATH=/snap/bin:$PATH"...)

pathnames.h has a #define for _PATH_DEFPATH where AFAICS this comes from. Maybe it's that which we would want to modify to fix this for cron in Ubuntu.