Bug#688716: cron: optionally inherit PATH from parent process

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.launchp

Bug#688716: cron: optionally inherit PATH from parent process

Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-116 Severity: wishlist The default PATH of cron isn't very useful. This patch adds an option -P to leave PATH alone, so that it's inherited from whatever execs cron. In our case that is daemontools, but could also be start-stop-daemon or whatever. This puts our sys