Re: interactive vs cron called

[Frank Li <fli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18 Dec 1997, Jason Zapman II wrote:

> Is there a way to tell if a script is being called by cron or via
> interactive script?  I'm writing something to tell me when disk usage of
> various partitions get's to dangerous levels.  When it's run via cron, I
> want it to mail me the results.  If it's interactive, I want it to print
> the output to the screen.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

actually, just have the program output to the screen since crontab will
automatically E-mail any stdout of the program to you anyway. Try it. 

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