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On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
> 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
>
You can just do:
*/20 * * * * lynx -dump http://someserver.net/somescript.pl
Lynx -dump just dumps the page and then exits...
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