Meng Weng Wong on Wed, 8 Jan 2003 12:51:09 -0500


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Re: Detecting Background


i do -t STDIN

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:46:34PM -0500, Urb LeJeune wrote:
| 	Is it possible for a Perl script to detect if it's running as a
| background task? If running from the command line I want to
| display progress messages, if running as a cron job I don't want
| to print. I could pass a parameter when running as a cron job but
| wanted to see if there was an easier way.
| 
| Urb
| 
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