How to detect if java is run from cron or through interactive shell.
I need to determine if the script is called by a user (show error message in sys.out) or cron(send error as email)
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How to detect if java is run from cron or through interactive shell.
I need to determine if the script is called by a user (show error message in sys.out) or cron(send error as email)
In your your crontab job you can pass an additional command line switch like
-Dcron=trueand that you can check inside your java code to branch out your logic.