Re: Bug#14264: cron doesn't put /usr/local/bin in PATH

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Steve Greenland <stevegr@NeoSoft.COM> writes:
> > Lars Wirzenius wrote that cron no longer included /usr/local/bin in
> > the default path for user crontabs, and wanted to know what the hell
> > I'd done, and why. ;-).
> > 
> ...
> > Among other things, I wrote:
> > > > [PATH comes from paths.h, which in `stable' includes /usr/local/bin]
> > 
> > and Herbert Xu replied:
> > > This is no longer the case with libc6.
 
> 3. Get the libc fixed so that paths.h _PATH_DEFPATH includes
> /usr/local/bin.  This is the correct solution as it fixes the problem
> everywhere.

This should be fixed in libc6, not cron.

-- 
Raul


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