test if script called by cron

Paul Macdonald paul at ifdnrg.com
Mon Sep 16 11:47:12 UTC 2013


Hi,

Is there a simple way of testing whether a given script was called via cron,

I'd rather find a solution that would work from within the script rather 
than setting an environment variable in the crontab.

thanks
Paul.

(anyone here going to EuroBSD con?)

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