Hi Maintainer This change was recently adopted in Ubuntu, along with the attached patch to update crontab(5) manpage to match the new behaviour.
Regards Graham
Description: Update crontab(5) manpage to match new behaviour Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/688716 Bug-Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cron/+bug/1938924 Author: Graham Inggs <gin...@debian.org> Last-Update: 2021-08-06 --- a/crontab.5 +++ b/crontab.5 @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ .IR cron (8) daemon. SHELL is set to /bin/sh, and LOGNAME and HOME are set from the /etc/passwd -line of the crontab's owner. PATH is set to "/usr/bin:/bin". +line of the crontab's owner. PATH is inherited from the environment. HOME, SHELL, and PATH may be overridden by settings in the crontab; LOGNAME is the user that the job is running from, and may not be changed. .PP @@ -123,8 +123,7 @@ .B NOT override the settings described above nor any settings in the .I crontab -file itself. Note in particular that if you want a PATH other than -"/usr/bin:/bin", you will need to set it in the crontab file. +file itself. .PP By default, cron will send mail using the mail "Content-Type:" header of "text/plain" with the "charset=" parameter set to the charmap / codeset of the @@ -305,7 +304,8 @@ # that none of the other crontabs do. SHELL=/bin/sh -PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin +# You can also override PATH, but by default, newer versions inherit it from the environment +#PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # Example of job definition: # .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
