Rudi Ahlers wrote:
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Filipe Brandenburger
<filbranden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 16:30, Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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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.
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?
Lynx is going to send the page to stdout, which cron will collect and
email to you unless you have redirected to /dev/null also, so I don't
see a big difference there. For static pages wget can use -N to only
get copies after they change, and the -O option to control where it
goes, which could be /dev/null if you really never want to see it.
And with lynx, do I just issue lynx -term=vt100 http://billing/admin/cron.php ?
Yes, but I'd recommend doing 'man lynx', 'man wget', and 'man curl' so
you understand the options and features of each.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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