On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Filipe Brandenburger >> <filbranden at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 16:30, Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers at gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I simply need to call 2 php scripts via a website - very simple todo, >>>> but cron tends to give me these errors for some odd reason, and the >>>> scripts doesn't run on the remote website. >>> >>> How are you calling these scripts from cron? lynx? wget? curl? Maybe >>> the problem is with the tool you are using to do that. If you give us >>> more details, we might be able to help you better. >>> >>> HTH, >>> Filipe >>> _______________________________________________ >> >> >> Hi, yes sorry I should have added that :) >> >> I'm using lynx, as follows: >> >> 9 0 * * * /usr/bin/lynx http://billing/admin/cron.php >> */5 * * * * /usr/bin/lynx http://billing/pipe/pop.php >> > > Lynx wants to do cursor positioning which is fairly useless in > non-interactive mode. You can give it a terminal type on the command line > with the -term= option, but it would probably be better to use wget instead > for non-interactive work. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ wget downloads the whole page every time, which wastes bandwidth & HDD space. Apart from using the "> /dev/null" option, is there any other way to use it? And with lynx, do I just issue lynx -term=vt100 http://billing/admin/cron.php ? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers