RE: [cobalt-users] Running lynx from cron to run php script

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I want to use cron to run a script like the following.
> 
> 01,15,30,45 * * * * root TERM=xterm; export TERM; 
> /usr/bin/lynx -dump 
http://files.fmmetrocog.org/weather/weather.php > /dev/null 2>&1


The other option would be, if you only need the forecast for 58104, to
use http://www.arvidbux.nl/comments.php?id=P89_0_1_0 and grab
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/forecasts/NDZ039.php?warncounty=NDC017&city
=Fargo
You then can include the .inc file in a .shtml or .php include in
another page.

In my cron, I call it as:
/usr/bin/wget http://www.sample.com/file.php > /dev/null 2>&1

I set up shell access just long enough to log in and set up a crontab
for the user. (I simply upload a .txt file and then while I'm SSH'd in
as that user I run crontab file.txt. Then the file gets included from
www.sample.com/users/username/file.inc which is where it gets dumped by
the script when it runs.

Or, you could also just install Hamweather and not have to leach the
forecast from another site.
-- 
C2002 Dan Kriwitsky

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