Linux Things That Are Easy to Miss (Until They Bite You)

Linux Things That Are Easy to Miss (Until They Bite You) The other day I spent 20 minutes debugging a cron job that worked perfectly when I ran it from the shell. The fix? PATH was different in cron. That’s not a one-time thing — I trip over the same class of subtle Linux papercuts every few months. So I wrote them all down. ...

July 13, 2026 · 10 min · Pragmatic Sysadmin
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