Hi All,
I am a new user to this forum and this is my first request.
I have a script which i am calling from crontab, i modified the code to execute directly also. I added an if condition to get user interaction in the code.This is now making the crontab call to wait for input and each time it creates new background process.

var=`find $FILENAME -newer $TIMESTAMP`
echo " Variable is $var Filename is $FILENAME"  >> $LOG_HOME/log.txt
if [ "$var" == "" ]
then
        echo "No new file available for build, Do you want to continue (Y/N) ? "
        read Choice
        if [ $Choice == "Y" ]
        then
                var=1
        fi
fi

if [[ -z $var ]]
then
    read -p "No new file available for build, Do you want to continue (Y/N)? " choice
    if [[ $choice == "N"  ||  $choice == "n" ]]
    then
        exit 0
    fi
fi

thanks Murphy,
But i m getting the following error

./monitor.sh[43]: read: 0403-039 No query process for pipe.

read -p "No new file available for build, Do you want to continue (Y/N) ? "  choice

#!/bin/ksh
TMOUT=5
# TMOUT is an Internal Variable
# If the $TMOUT environment variable is set to a non zero value time, then the shell prompt will time out after $time seconds.This will cause a logout.
# If you run this script in current shell after 5 seconds you will be logout
echo " You only have $TMOUT seconds\n Enter your name quickly: \c"
name=""
read name
if [ ! -z "$name" ]
then
echo " Your name is $name"
else
echo -e "\n TIME OUT\n You failed to enter your name"
fi

You can test whether you are in background and take different action (like not asking the question):

if [ -t 1 ]
then
         echo "In foreground"
else
         echo "In background"
fi