Re: lynx-dev user agent when running lynx via crontab entry?

[Kim DeVaughn]

On Wed, Jul 07, 1999, address@hidden (address@hidden) said:
|
| Anyhow, here is what my crontab entry executes:
|
| /usr/local/bin/lynx -useragent='Mozilla/4.04 [en]' -nolist -dump 
http://www.imdb.com/StudioBrief | mail address@hidden

| So I thought adding the -useragent and parameter to the above would work..
| and it does work when I do it manually at the UNIX command line..  But in
| my crontab entry which just ran, I still got back the "we're not letting
| you connect" message..
|
| What's the deal?

I dunno ... perhaps some weird kind of "quoting" problem in your
particular crontab ...?

Anyway, I made the above command into a one-line (well, two ... can't
forget the  #!/bin/sh  line) shell-script, and the requested page ended
up in my mailbox OK, when I executed the script.

You might try that (have your crontab invoke a shell-script containing
the cmd), instead of having that line/cmd in your crontab, per se.

Don't forget to chmod the script to 0755, or some such ...

/kim