[buug] Firing a URL with lynx?

Aaron T Porter atporter at primate.net
Fri Jun 13 10:58:12 PDT 2003


On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:54:41AM -0700, Skip Evans wrote:
> I have a PHP script I wrote that fires off an email to members of a
> web site to let them know at the end of the day all the updates to the 
> site for that day.
> 
> I was wondering if it's possible to put a call to lynx in a chron job
> and have it fire off the URL, but then also kill itself once it has done
> the URL.
> 
> Anyone know how this can be done, if it can be done?

	Why not use the php interpreter from the commandline? Or wget the
url, or lynx -dump?



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