#19237 crontab should support TMPDIR env variable

Package:
cron
Source:
cron
Description:
process scheduling daemon
Submitter:
Steve Greenland
Date:
2018-11-27 20:51:03 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#19237#5
Date:
1998-03-10 04:03:03 UTC
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To:
This was added in a previous release, but causes problems with emacs
(because emacs changes how it does file backups in /tmp vs other
directories). I've removed the TMPDIR support, but will add it back
later. This bug report is just a reminder to me.
#19237#10
Date:
2013-02-24 01:12:53 UTC
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To:
Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-124
Followup-For: Bug #19237
Control: usertags -1 + tmp

More than 10 years later, the crontab program still doesn't use TMPDIR.
#19237#15
Date:
2018-11-27 20:46:26 UTC
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To:
Recent correspondence for a consequent GNU emacs bug report:

----- Forwarded message from Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> -----

Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 00:56:29 -0500
From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Boruch Baum <boruch_baum@gmx.com>
Cc: 33219@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33219: 25.2; crontab -e doesn't connect to existing emacs daemon
User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
differently.

For example, perhaps "crontab -e" does not pass TMPDIR to the spawned editor:
https://bugs.debian.org/19237

I verified by doing:
M-: (getenv "TMPDIR")
in the Emacs spawned by crontab that this is indeed the case.

So yes, I think it is a crontab issue.
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