This scenario would only happen if a flag became required. Prompting or not it would still be an issue. (And it wouldn't prompt as this is a non-tty environment)
Yes, but in one case the issue would result in a mail because the cron job failed, and in the other case the issue would just cause the the process to hang indefinitely without notice
Yes, but in one case the issue would result in a mail because the cron job failed, and in the other case the issue would just cause the the process to hang indefinitely without notice