Crontab Question

[Jonathan Chen]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 09:34, Software Info <softwareinfojam at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I see. I had however copied the output of env to the etc/crontab PATH line. Wouldn’t that care for an environment issue though?

When I say "environment", I mean it in the generic sense; including
working-directory.

However, best practise is to keep /etc/crontab as minimal as possible,
and to set up environ(7) within the invoked script-file.
Security-wise, you should just keep PATH in /etc/crontab to the
standard, and invoke your script with:
* * * * * user /path/to/my/script

This is especially important when running as root.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>