misc/184409: crontab enviornment should include common paths like /sbin or /usr/sbin
Patrick Dung
patrick_dkt at yahoo.com.hk
Sun Dec 1 14:20:01 UTC 2013
>Number: 184409
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: crontab enviornment should include common paths like /sbin or /usr/sbin
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Dec 01 14:20:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Patrick Dung
>Release: FreeBSD 9.2 x64
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
By default, user's crontab would have below environment variables
LOGNAME=user1
PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
PWD=/usr/home/user1
HOME=/home/user1
USER=user1
SHELL=/bin/sh
When the script is invoked/test in command line, it worked.
When the script is invoked by cronjob, some part of the script failed to run because /usr/sbin/chown is not in the search PATH.
It is not convenient.
>How-To-Repeat:
always
>Fix:
configure user's crontab to include PATH like /etc/crontab
PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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