On Thursday 08 December 2005 05:39 am, Will Maier wrote: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 08:16:31PM -0900, Beecher Rintoul wrote: > > Thanks to you both, I missed the background option. Actually it > > just needs to run in the background to log some hits on a free > > webserver that I use for testing. I forget and they will cancel my > > account if there's no traffic for a month. The timeout also looks > > interesting and I'll look into it. > > You might want to consider using fetch, wget or curl for this > application, not lynx. A simple cron job to request and download > your webpage (if your webpage was google.com ; )) could be as simple > as: > > 10 2 * * * /path/to/ftp -o /dev/null > http://www.google.com/index.html > /dev/null > > Or, using curl: > 10 2 * * * /path/to/curl -s http://www.google.com/index.html > > /dev/null
Thanks, that is a much simpler solution. I have curl installed and I'll give it a try. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://akparadise.byethost33.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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