conf/41242: periodic(8) scripts make unwarranted assumptions about PATH

[vwe at FreeBSD.org]

Synopsis: periodic(8) scripts make unwarranted assumptions about PATH

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: vwe
State-Changed-When: Fri Aug 20 09:09:09 UTC 2010
State-Changed-Why: 
Pat,
it seems like noone cared much about the issue you filed in 8 years now.
To me it looks like you screwed up your PATH and thus you cannot expect to
start the right binaries if you do this. For periodic /etc/crontab is the right
place to set PATH.
For a user .profile or .cshrc it's not recommended to screw up PATH that way.
You may risk a lot of problems more, not just with periodic and it's scripts.
As I don't think there's much room for an official fix to change this, I'm closing this PR.
I'll be happy to re-open this PR if there's a chance to have this solved cleanly.


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->vwe
Responsible-Changed-By: vwe
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Aug 20 09:09:09 UTC 2010
Responsible-Changed-Why: 
track

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