05-29-2015
Cron may be setting a default PATH.
e.g. from
Linux 2.6 man pages
Quote:
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". HOME, SHELL, and PATH may be overridden by set-
tings in the crontab; LOGNAME is the user that the job is running from, and may not be
changed.
(I've no idea if that's the case on Raspberry though. Or on reboot, for that matter...)
Last edited by CarloM; 05-29-2015 at 08:59 AM..
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