[Chicago-talk] writing a log with Cron, Daemons, Perl
Paul Baker
pbaker at where2getit.com
Thu Sep 11 21:54:31 CDT 2003
On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 09:40 PM, Jay Strauss wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Why do you do the -t test? And which file is it testing that it's
> opened to
> a tty?
It's testing if the current process is running from a tty (meaning from
an interactive console, and not from cron or an rc.d init script)
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