Re: [expert] cron question

[Sebastian Dransfeld]

On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Alex V Flinsch wrote:

> 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?

Or use lynx.

seb