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anacron package

  1. Bug #1317920
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 1317920

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: update-notifier does not user configured system proxy when downloading files with package-data-downloader

> Note that this is NOT cron !!!

> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 07:48:29 +0300
> From: Anacron <root@......fi>
> To: root@.......fi

So this is a problem with anacron, which when run via /etc/cron.d/anacron does not inherit the environment from cron's pam handler (because anacron is run via an upstart job, and upstart jobs always run with a reset environment).

This is therefore a bug in the anacron package.