Crontab failure

[Cinquecento]

Hello again!

I've been setting up crontab to run a php file using lynx (for it is within Apache)...

• lynx -dump http://www.domain.co.uk/info.php

and yes it seems to run every minute.... but I only know this because my admin mbox gets sent an email by the cron daemon saying:

"your terminal lacks the ability to clear the screen or position the cursor"

The file 'info.php' currently sends me an email to say it works - but it never has - unless I run the file directly in lynx (using the same line as above without the time fields) in which case it works perfectly.

I'd already given up on this - but today ran out of user disc space when the old cron job I'd tried to get working had delivered 46.382 error reports to me in the last six months - must remember not to leave knackered code lying around!

Everything I read says this should work - so why isn't it?

Ian

[getDizzle]

I'm guessing this server is Linux. For whatever reason Linux cannot use the X Terminal started by a cron. Try this:

• TERM=xterm; export TERM; /usr/bin/lynx -source http://www.domain.co.uk/info.php

Replace /usr/bin/lynx with the full path to lynx on your server.

Hope this helps.

[Cinquecento]

I don't understand it - but it worked OK....

Maybe one day I'll understand!

Thanks GetDizzle

Ian