diff --git a/files/common.sh b/files/common.sh
index 8af0b0f..a448fb9 100644
--- a/files/common.sh
+++ b/files/common.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ fail() {
   # Print a stderr: entry if there were anything printed to stderr
   if [[ -s $_tmp ]]; then
     # Hack to try and output valid json by replacing newlines with spaces.
-    echo "{ \"status\": \"error\", \"message\": \"$1\", \"stderr\": \"$(tr '\n' ' ' <$_tmp)\" }"
+     echo "{ \"status\": \"error\", \"message\": \"$1\", \"stderr\": \"$(tr '\n' ' ' <$_tmp)\" }"
   else
     echo "{ \"status\": \"error\", \"message\": \"$1\" }"
   fi
diff --git a/manifests/backup.pp b/manifests/backup.pp
index 7beee66..3417190 100644
--- a/manifests/backup.pp
+++ b/manifests/backup.pp
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 
   # Reset the crontab for pe-postgres if the (databases backed up by default every day) change.
   exec { 'reset_pe-postgres_crontab':
-    path        => '/usr/local/bin/:/bin/',
+    path        => '/usr/local/bin/:/bin/:/usr/bin',
     command     => 'crontab -r -u pe-postgres',
     onlyif      => 'crontab -l -u pe-postgres',
     refreshonly => true,
diff --git a/tasks/reset_pgrepack_schema.sh b/tasks/reset_pgrepack_schema.sh
index 84eb0bf..85b96db 100644
--- a/tasks/reset_pgrepack_schema.sh
+++ b/tasks/reset_pgrepack_schema.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/bin/bash
 
 # Puppet Task Name: reset_pgrepack_schema
 declare PT__installdir