I wish to set Lynx to go to a specified page at intervals set by me. This page
is a pass-through to a site that, when accessed, sends a mail message to a
script on another machine. If that machine does not receive the message within
a specified interval, it sets alarms blaring. Basically, I would like to do
the equivalent of this in crontab. (As root, in bash, if that matters.)
Any ideas? I'd like to let it start Lynx, wait one minute (or some other
interval), then kill the process. (I assume the latter could be done through
"kill `pidof lynx`".)
Thanks in advance.
*/20 * * * * lynx http://someserver.net/somescript.pl; wait...; kill lynx
