If you have wget on your system, it is a lighter and faster alternative to
lynx for this purpose.

-- Christopher Scollo




On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Arun wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Lucky for you!, i have done some looking around on this recently. The best way
> is to schedule the following (assuming u have lynx running)
> 
> lynx -source "yourURL"
> 
> lynx URL will not work as it'll create a new instance of lynx for every call
> made.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> Arun
> 
> 
> 
> Minh-Dang TA wrote:
> 
> > i have a website that generate a random session id for visitors to the
> > site. This session id is stored in the database along with all info
> > provided by the user. Once the user have submitted his/her info,
> > the "garbag" infomation is deleted from the database. However if the user
> > leave the website before submitting everything, the information is still
> > stored on the database.
> >
> > I am running Apache and was thinking of getting chron to automatically run
> > a php script that does the clean-up. However im told that chron only does
> > exe files. Is this correct?
> >
> > If so is there a way to get the sever to automatically run a php scripts
> > on a pre-defined interval?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Kind Regards
> > Minh-Dang TA
> >
> > Web: http://www.emagen.com.au
> > ---------------------------------
> >
>