lynx-dev Re: Trying to run cmd_script via cron

[Webmaster Jim]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 04:25:29PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > I have been able to run lynx with a cmd_script in the past, but am
> > getting core dumps on the latest version. This is compiled on NetBSD
> > with --enable-nls and --enable-debug. [...]
> is that ncurses, or some other flavor?  I've only tried the cron stuff on
> Linux, though this should be portable.  Running in cron, you don't have
> a /dev/tty, so things that try to set terminal modes will fail.

My latest NetBSD build uses natives curses.  I believe the older build
where this worked was with ncurses.  It's not good that it core dumps
instead of giving useful diagnostics.

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