[buug] Firing a URL with lynx?
Sean Neakums
sneakums at zork.net
Fri Jun 13 10:59:19 PDT 2003
Skip Evans <evans at ncseweb.org> writes:
> 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.
>
> I have looked through the options in the man pages, but didn't see
> anything that would cause it to terminate after executing the script.
lynx -dump is probably what you want. If the script doesn't return
any useful information, just devnull it.
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