try this: lynx --source http://my_url/my.php > /dev/null - Achim Am Die, 2003-06-17 um 02.55 schrieb Rudi Starcevic:Hi, I'd like to exeute a php script on Apache via a cron job. All I want to do is execute the file not download it. So far I've tried wget and lynx without the results I'd like. Wget downloads the file and the lynx commnad opens up lynx in a terminal. Any tips ? Thank you kindly Best regards Rudi.