Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx crontab issue.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Thorsten Glaser wrote:

> Bilal MK dixit:
>
> > Thats works in my terminal, But in crontab does not work,
> > #!/bin/bash
> > export TERM=xterm
> > /usr/local/bin/lynx -dump
> > http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=mysite.com >
> > /tmp/mysite.txt
>
> That's not a crontab entry. A crontab entry would be:
>
> */30 * * * * /usr/bin/env TERM=xterm /usr/local/bin/lynx -dump 
> http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=mysite.com >/tmp/mysite.txt

I'd assumed he was calling the given script from crontab.

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