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



Previously Ian Jackson wrote:
> I disagree.  On Debian systems /usr/local is writeable by group staff,
> which is empty by default.  If the system administrator changes this
> that is up to them.

The problem with that is that /usr/local is commonly NFS-mounted. And
what is group staff on Debian may be group users on another system.
I've seen this happen here: On the rest of the system I am in group
sbh (ie sysadmin) and on my Debian system I am group floppy.. 

Wichert.

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