How to tell when a script is executed by cron ?

[Ian Bicking]

On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 18:41, Simon Dobner wrote:
> I want to know how to tell if a script is being executed in the background
> by cron, as opposed to running in the foreground from the command prompt.

The easiest way would be to use a command-line option in your crontab
that you don't use otherwise.

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