Alex V Flinsch wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > I am trying to get dynamip (www.dynamip.com) to work with my linux box
> > and cable modem connection. Dynamip gives you a
> > "subdomain.dynamip.com" address for $3 buck a month. To get their
> > service to work with Linux, I will have to use cron to force netscape
> > to open a specific url every 15 minutes. I am in the process of
> > putting together some scripts to do just that.
> >
> > As a test, I did the following.
> > I made a file called "netscapetab" with the contents:
> >
> > #Start of netscapetab
> >
> > #! /bin/sh
> >
> > netscape -noraise -remote 'openurl(http://www.news.com)'
> >
> > #End of netscapetab
> >
> >
> > I did a "chkmod +x netscapetab" to make the script executable. Run
> > from the shell, this script will find the first open netscape window
> > and load up the News.com web site.
> >
> > As a test of cron I modified my crontab as follows
> >
> >
> > #Start of crontab
> >
> > SHELL=/bin/bash
> > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> > MAILTO=root
> > HOME=/
> >
> > # run-parts
> > 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> > 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> > 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
> > 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
> > */1 * * * * root /usr/bin/netscapetab
> >
> > # Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line too.
> > 0 0 * * * root /etc/security/msec/cron-sh/security.sh
> >
> > #End of crontab
> >
> > Now /var/log/cron shows /usr/bin/netscapetab running every minute. But my
> > browser window does not open News.com.
> >
> > Any ideas.
>
> idea 1 --
>
> your script is running as root, your open netscape window isn't, and
> can't be found
>
> idea 2 --
>
> do you really need to waste all that memory running netscape to get
> the url? From the above, you just need to hit some website every few minutes to
> have your dynamic ip assignment working. And I assume that news.com is not the
> real website that you need to hit, it's probablly something on dynamip.com. Why
> not try something like
>
> wget -O /dev/null http://www.news.com
>
> in your crontab instead?
>
> --
> Alex
> (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Idea 1 is not the problem, as I ran netscape as root. But idea 2 I really like. I
did not know about the wget program. I am going to give that a try.
