[Bug 1938924] Re: Update crontab(5) manpage to match new behaviour

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This bug was fixed in the package cron - 3.0pl1-137ubuntu2

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cron (3.0pl1-137ubuntu2) impish; urgency=medium

  * Update crontab(5) manpage to match new behaviour (LP: #1938924)

 -- Graham Inggs <ginggs at ubuntu.com>  Fri, 06 Aug 2021 10:59:44 +0000

** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  Update crontab(5) manpage to match new behaviour

Status in cron package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  From LP: #1779767 comment 13:

  In crontab(5) in cron 3.0pl1-136ubuntu2 the manpage is now wrong. It
  says:

  > Several environment variables are set up automatically by the cron(8) daemon.
  > […] PATH is set to "/usr/bin:/bin". HOME, SHELL, and PATH may be overridden
  > by settings in the crontab […]

  and also

  > On the Debian GNU/Linux system, cron supports the pam_env module, and loads
  > the environment specified by /etc/environment and /etc/security/pam_env.conf.
  > It also reads locale information from /etc/default/locale. However, the PAM
  > settings do NOT override the settings described above nor any settings in the
  > 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.

  These should be fixed I think. There might be other spots that I didn't notice
  yet too.

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