How to get CRON to call in the correct PATHs

Question

I\'m trying to get cron to call in the correct PATHs. When I run a Python script from shell the script runs fine as it uses the PATHs set in bashrc but when I use cron all t

Answer 1

On my AIX cron picks up it's environmental variables from /etc/environment ignoring what is set in the .profile.

Edit: I also checked out a couple of Linux boxes of various ages and these appear to have this file as well, so this is likely not AIX specific.

I checked this using joemaller's cron suggestion and checking the output before and after editing the PATH variable in /etc/environment.