From: Bruce Harvey (BruceH@ROUTESCAPE.COM)
Date: Thu Dec 19 2002 - 15:14:13 EST
... as opposed to ... what? foreground attached to a terminal? background
attached to a terminal? background detached from a terminal (e.g., a system
startup process)? What is the difference you're looking for? Environment?
Terminal?
Performing a `ps` (no options) and seeing if 'cron' is there might be one
way ... but why? Both curiosity and gettin' the right answer.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Taylor, David [mailto:DTaylor@WBMI.COM]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 2:53 PM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: [aix-l] Am I running from cron?
Is there anyway from within a script to determine if it is being run from
cron?
TIA
David
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