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Non-chrooted Cronjobs In Plesk 10

Plesk 10 has a bug (feature?) where it inserts this line into the crontab file for each user (including non-chrooted users):

This effectively breaks the jobs, because it makes them try to run in a chroot jail, which won’t work. You can manually remove the lines but Plesk will restore them when the job is edited. A workaround, is to run this command on the server:

That changes the SHELL setting to a normal default value, which should run the jobs correctly. This is not a great fix, because it probably messes up cronjobs for users who really are chrooted but it may be useful to some.

–ben