diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3ab96fb6db45775b7cd3994909001d842cee8983..e2b8a540708aa0d83c84cd06f8bf5af5e3a382b0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,21 +6,26 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [1.2.5] - 2022-06-07
+### Fixed
+- cron: assure lspci is executable
+- metric-generator-exec.sh: better logging/tracing with CMG_TRACE
+
 ## [1.2.4] - 2022-06-07
-### Added
+### Fixed
 - gpumon: GPU_DEVICES_UNRECOGNIZED detection reworked without grep, with gawk, avoiding crash
 
 ## [1.2.3] - 2022-06-07
-### Added
+### Fixed
 - gpumon: publish at least a metric help (metric-generator-exec requirement)
 - metric-generator-exec.sh: added note on how should generator module behave
 
 ## [1.2.2] - 2022-06-07
-### Added
+### Fixed
 - gpumon: avoid crashing on no GPU (readlink)
 
 ## [1.2.1] - 2022-06-07
-### Added
+### Fixed
 - gpumon: avoid crashing on no GPU
 - gpumon: avoid reporting GPU metric help on no GPU
 
diff --git a/entrypoint.sh b/entrypoint.sh
index 31c81a77dc321bed4fc2e2b38c617f8dbdbfd3f3..271fc412b03e34c621b0fef6198af31d4ac5e5d8 100755
--- a/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/entrypoint.sh
@@ -27,13 +27,14 @@ test -d "${CMG_OUT_METRICS_DIR}" || \
   mkdir -p "${CMG_OUT_METRICS_DIR}"
 
 i_fixed_sleep=0
+echo -e "SHELL=/bin/bash\nPATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin\n\n" > /var/spool/cron/root
 for i_module in ${CMG_EXEC_MODULES}; do
     touch "${CMG_OUT_METRICS_DIR}/${i_module}.prom" \
       "${CMG_OUT_METRICS_DIR}/custom-metrics-generator_${i_module}.prom" > /dev/null
     echo "* * * * * ${CMG_BASE_DIR}/src/delay-jitter-exec.sh ${i_fixed_sleep} ${CMG_MAX_JITTER_DELAY} \
       ${CMG_BASE_DIR}/src/metric-generator-exec.sh ${i_module} ${CMG_OUT_METRICS_DIR}/${i_module}.prom ${CMG_OUT_METRICS_DIR}/custom-metrics-generator_${i_module}.prom"
     i_fixed_sleep=$(( ${i_fixed_sleep} + 5 ))
-done > /var/spool/cron/root
+done >> /var/spool/cron/root
 
 echo "custom-metrics-generator configuration:"
 set | grep -E '^CMG_' | awk '{print "export " $0}' > "${CMG_BASE_DIR}/custom-metrics-generator.conf.env"
diff --git a/src/lib.sh b/src/lib.sh
index ab0941354883fb57e0a250935fffe573c1d53f2f..7c34031b1376f5a7685510377e774c8ec73a88d4 100644
--- a/src/lib.sh
+++ b/src/lib.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 
+[[ "${CMG_TRACE}" =~ ^1|[Tt]rue$ ]] && \
+  set -x
+
+
 # get_metric_help ( <metric-name> <metric-type> <metric-desc>)
 #   generates testform metric help
 function get_metric_help() {
diff --git a/src/metric-generator-exec.sh b/src/metric-generator-exec.sh
index 3adea22f13b249c96735546552ad82747925b446..8881f0c67f2b81f5de19e252c537151bb528c8b4 100755
--- a/src/metric-generator-exec.sh
+++ b/src/metric-generator-exec.sh
@@ -78,10 +78,10 @@ function at_exit() {
         fi
         mv -f "${OUTPUT_METRIC_GENERATOR_RUNNER_METRIC_FILE}.tmp" "${OUTPUT_METRIC_GENERATOR_RUNNER_METRIC_FILE}"
     fi
-    local env_dump_file="/tmp/cmg-${METRICS_GENERATOR_NAME}-trace.log"
-    set > ${env_dump_file}
+
+    set > "/tmp/cmg-${METRICS_GENERATOR_NAME}-trace.log"
     if [ "${STAGE_NAME}" != "success" ]; then
-        log_stderr "ERROR: Job ${METRICS_GENERATOR_NAME} failed at step \"${STAGE_NAME}\" (PPID: $$, duration: ${SECONDS} sec[s], see env. dump at ${env_dump_file})."
+        log_stderr "ERROR: Job ${METRICS_GENERATOR_NAME} failed at step \"${STAGE_NAME}\" (PPID: $$, duration: ${SECONDS} sec[s], see env. dump at /tmp/cmg-*${METRICS_GENERATOR_NAME}-trace.log)."
         exit 1
     fi
     log_stdout "INFO: Job ${METRICS_GENERATOR_NAME} succeeded. (PPID: $$, duration: ${SECONDS} sec[s])"
@@ -96,7 +96,9 @@ rm -f "${OUTPUT_METRIC_GENERATOR_RUNNER_METRIC_FILE}.tmp"
 get_metric_text "job_last_run_timestamp" "${METRICS_GENERATOR_NAME}" "${GENERATOR_START_TIME}" >> "${OUTPUT_METRIC_GENERATOR_RUNNER_METRIC_FILE}.tmp"
 
 STAGE_NAME="metric-generator successfuly executed"
-timeout ${CMG_METRIC_GENERATOR_EXEC_TIMEOUT} ${METRICS_GENERATOR_FILE} ${OUTPUT_METRIC_GENERATOR_METRIC_FILE} > "${OUTPUT_METRIC_GENERATOR_METRIC_FILE}.tmp"
+timeout ${CMG_METRIC_GENERATOR_EXEC_TIMEOUT} ${METRICS_GENERATOR_FILE} ${OUTPUT_METRIC_GENERATOR_METRIC_FILE} \
+   > "${OUTPUT_METRIC_GENERATOR_METRIC_FILE}.tmp" \
+  2> "/tmp/cmg-module-${METRICS_GENERATOR_NAME}-trace.log"
 
 STAGE_NAME="metric-generator generated valid metrics"
 test -s "${OUTPUT_METRIC_GENERATOR_METRIC_FILE}.tmp"