Copy & Cron

[anthonyaykut]

Hi,

I need to do the following:

if exists
http://www.external.com/dir/file.html
copy
http://www.external.com/dir/file.html
to
http://www.myserver.com/dir/file.html
end if

every 15 or 30 mins

How could this be done?

Regards
Anthony

[hand]

Yes it's possible. You can run scripts offline (without using a browser) using wget or lynx
Try it with
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html

wget [url]http://www.somewhere.com/...[/url]

lynx -dump [url]http://localhost/...[/url]

An about CronJobs you can find some informations here
http://www.linux-tutorial.info/cgi-bin/display.pl?78&0&0&0&3

[128kb_com]

You can edit your crontab directly with the command
$ crontab -e

this will open up your crontab with the text editor specified by $EDITOR or vi for default. If you plan on doing this with php, you can use the curl functions - but you'll have to have php compiled --with-curl=/path, otherwise you can use fsockopen() and craft your own HTTP request....