Re: [Lynx-dev] Question to the option "-connect_timeout"

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Jens Schleusener wrote:

> I use within a script the program "lynx" via
>
>  lynx -dump -nolist URL
>
> and added now the option
>
>  -connect_timeout=15
>
> to shorten the general processing time while connecting to invalid or 
> currently unreachable URLs. That works if I call the script interactively (on 
> the console) but not if the script is called as a cronjob. Instead a 
> "usage"-message is issued where the option "-connect_timeout" is missing.
>
> Why? Any ideas?

The first thing I would check is if I'd set my $PATH to point to the 
correct version of lynx.  Within cron, you only get a default set of
environment variables rather than having your login scripts read.

Since that's generally inconvenient, I use cron with a shell script
wrapper that sets up my $PATH

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