how to tell if a background progam run

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If that's a script unto its own, and it has a name which is called in
crontab, then I'd edit the script and have it just touch a file like
/tmp/i_ran and check after it's supposed to have run for whether or not
it did indeed run.

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On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 06:23:46PM -0600, Tony Freehauf via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> Hi Experts - any advise on how to tell if a program like the below one runs
> or fails to run
> 
> thanks
> 
> old program
> 
> below program is run from a corntab:
> 
> TERM=linux;export TERM
> /appl/fp/dreport stock -f fixUpdateEsc -ia -u -bs -bg
> 
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