Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 06:54:17 -0900 From: Beecher Rintoul <akbeech@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Will Maier <willmaier@ml1.net> Subject: Re: simple shell script Message-ID: <200512080654.35814.akbeech@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20051208143954.GV2413@merkur.atekomi.net> References: <200512071847.05393.akbeech@gmail.com> <200512072016.58524.akbeech@gmail.com> <20051208143954.GV2413@merkur.atekomi.net>
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--nextPart17202111.MURAgzPdLk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 =A02=A0=A0=A0* =A0 *=A0=A0=A0* =A0 /path/to/ftp -o /dev/null > http://www.google.com/index.html > /dev/null > > Or, using curl: > 10 =A02=A0=A0=A0* =A0 *=A0=A0=A0* =A0 /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 giv= e=20 it a try. Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - akbeech@gmail.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | NorthWind Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://akparadise.byethost33.com =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart17202111.MURAgzPdLk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDmFc7Vq19LUoGB+MRAgkcAKDJFZtBi2+E5iUsne+GoUW9SGp03ACfdbR8 +ok2tZ9JEXmHSYV7R+WHc3w= =ZMmM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart17202111.MURAgzPdLk--
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