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

[Jens Schleusener]

Hello Thomas,

> > 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

That was really the problem. So I used all the months on the command-line 
the nice current lynx-versions but via cron a very old one (not knowing 
about the "-connect_timeout"-option). Embarassing since I know (at least 
principally) that "cron-problem".

Thanks

Jens

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