hi,
i want to start lynx on a linux machine thru cron.daily, only to access a php page that does a lot of maintainence jobs but does not return anything.
i do not know how to kill a cron job.
eg if i give a cron like this
30 15 * lynx http://somserver/page.php
how do i kill lynx after this, so that memory is not wasted.
thanx
steve
Try:
lynx --source http://someserver/page.php
Once lynx is done it will return the contents of the page and quit. Probably what you are looking for.
Chris King
No need to kill anything; lynx will run and then exit.
I had problems getting lynx to quit at one time.
My solution was to have the cron call php directly. For example:
30 15 * /path/to/php /path/to/routine.php
or, specifically in of my cases,
22,52 /usr/local/bin/php -q /home/sites/home/web/images/temp/cron_delete_files.php > /dev/null
Hope that helps.
Rob
Or put into the to of the php script:
#!/path/to/php -q
<?
php stuff
?>
and
30 15 * /path/to/routine.php
in the the cron file
This is what I do
Will