lynx dump

[plug@arcticmail.com]

Also, some programs don't like it when there
is no controlling tty for the process.  If you
do a "ps auxww" and there's a "?" in the TTY
column, then that process does not have a
controlling tty.

If David's TERM environment variable thing
doesn't do the trick, try running your command
using "screen".  screen will allocate a
pseudo-tty, and run your process using that 
pseudo-tty as the process' controlling tty.


Example:

     screen cat /etc/shadow


D

OT:  Did anybody see the tux2 filesystem on /.?
     Sounds interesting...


* On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:15:50PM -0700, sinck@ugive.com wrote:
> 
> 
> \_ In the past, I have run the following in a crontab:
> \_ 
> \_ lynx -dump http:/<URL OF PAGE> | mail -s "My Subject" me
> \_ 
> \_ On the command line everything works as expected, however,
> \_ running it in cron, it chokes. Complains about my terminal
> \_ not supporting something or another.
> 
> It doesn't like the term setting cron sets up for you.
> 
> Try lieing to the shell in crontab:
> 
> * * * * * (export term=vt100; lynx -dump ... | mail -s ...)
> 
> YMMV.
> 
> Or try another tool like curl or wget.
> 
> David