On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 05:35:39AM +0100, Gareth Evans wrote:
> On Sat 16 Jul 2022, at 05:30, Gareth Evans <donots...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> > Why isn't root's $PATH available to root crontab? ie. including the
> > link /sbin -> /usr/sbin?
>
> By which I mean: why can't root crontab do everything sudo can do?
Because they're different programs.
crontab(5):
Several environment variables are set up automatically by the 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". [...]
Debian's /etc/sudoers file:
Defaults
secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
So, it depends on whether you're using the default settings, or changing
them.
