I am working on creating a script that will run through the .profile on several servers. Normally this would be an easy task, but we have several k shell scripts which run through cron. In order for these scripts to run correctly, they need to run .profile so they can be aware of $ORACLE_HOME and other variables. My script, however, does not need this info.

The solution we are thinking of pursuing right now is to have the perl script detect when it is being called by cron, rather than a standard login, and then gracefully die so that cron does not hang waiting for input.

My question, in a nutshell, is: Is there any way to detect if cron is running .profile, rather than a 'standard' user logon?

In reply to Detecting cron by peschkaj

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