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Date:      Mon, 16 Sep 2013 20:55:48 -0700
From:      aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com>
To:        Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: test if script called by cron
Message-ID:  <6E30E203-1062-41C6-A553-68D6AB372C4A@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5236EB03.7040001@ifdnrg.com>
References:  <5236EB03.7040001@ifdnrg.com>

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An easy way to do this is check /var/log/cron

There are many other ways.=20

- aurf

On Sep 16, 2013, at 4:26 AM, Paul Macdonald wrote:

>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> Is there a simple way of testing whether a given script was called via =
cron,
>=20
> I'd rather find a solution that would work from within the script =
rather than setting an environment variable in the crontab.
>=20
> thanks
> Paul.
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> (anyone here going to EuroBSD con?)
>=20
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