Bug 244180

Summary:	path for root's cronjobs is missing the sbin directories
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David Jansen <jansen>
Component:	vixie-cron	Assignee:	Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description David Jansen 2007-06-14 12:49:31 UTC

In earlier fedora (and RHEL) versions, root's cron jobs had
/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin as their path, 
whereas Fedora 7 only has /bin and /usr/bin . Nothing important of course, but
it breaks scripts that don't actually add the full path to the programs they call.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vixie-cron-4.1-82.fc7.i386

In case this matters: I was using cron jobs entered through 'crontab -e', jobs
in /etc/cron.* seem to be unaffected due to the PATh setting that happens in
/etc/crontab. As far as I could find out, no cronjobs supplied by Fedora are
affected, since they all reside in /etc/cron.* . So maybe it is not a bug, but
just a change in behaviour that needed to be documented?

Comment 1 Marcela Mašláňová 2007-07-16 13:33:09 UTC

Well, I look at every branch and I didn't find paths set on
/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin. Which version of
cron did you meant? I can add it as a feature, no problem.

Comment 2 Marcela Mašláňová 2007-07-16 15:41:40 UTC

Hm I reconsider my opinion. I'll write a line in manual pages, because I find
out that this setting of paths is for security. The paths are read from system
like _PATH_DEFPATH, which is set on /bin and /usr/bin. Other /sbin paths are not
allowed for non root users. 

Fix of manual will be in rawhide.