simple shell script

[Beecher Rintoul]

On Thursday 08 December 2005 05:39 am, Will Maier wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 08:16:31PM -0900, Beecher Rintoul wrote:
> > Thanks to you both, I missed the background option. Actually it
> > just needs to run in the background to log some hits on a free
> > webserver that I use for testing. I forget and they will cancel my
> > account if there's no traffic for a month. The timeout also looks
> > interesting and I'll look into it.
>
> You might want to consider using fetch, wget or curl for this
> application, not lynx. A simple cron job to request and download
> your webpage (if your webpage was google.com ; )) could be as simple
> as:
>
> 10  2   *   *   *   /path/to/ftp -o /dev/null
> http://www.google.com/index.html > /dev/null
>
> Or, using curl:
> 10  2   *   *   *   /path/to/curl -s http://www.google.com/index.html >
> /dev/null

Thanks, that is a much simpler solution. I have curl installed and I'll give 
it a try.

Beech

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