[Chicago-talk] writing a log with Cron, Daemons, Perl

Jay Strauss me at heyjay.com
Thu Sep 11 22:12:01 CDT 2003


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Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 9:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Chicago-talk] writing a log with Cron, Daemons, Perl


> 
> 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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