Re: [plug] Crontab/Shell Script Question

[Lawrence Guirre]

following eric's suggestion, you can try the reverse, you can check for one of your shell's environment variables that would not exist when run in cron. run the command 'set' to see your current shell's env vars. I tried using TERM and it was different when run in cron and shell. HTH! Lawrence eric pareja wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ludwig, You can set environment variables in your crontab. See crontab(5). In your script, you can then test for the environment variable which you set up in your crontab. On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Ludwig Isaac Lim wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://getfiregpg.org iEYEARECAAYFAkj1ricACgkQqYbDibguQtlXYgCfZm+6o8wY/mkJMMmyxAKI4fwc gIMAmwXIcek/qEwuIgftZhuK3pJYJxMa =RCyr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Is there a way of knowing if a particular shell script is being executed from crontab? If there's no way to know if it was executed from crontab, can a particular shell script determine if it was executed via command line?

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