Re: lynx+cron

[Craig Dickson <crdic@yahoo.com>]

Gabor Gludovatz wrote:

> I'd like to run lynx -dump as a cron job, but it always tells me, that
> "Your terminal lacks the ability to clear the screen or position the
> cursor."
> I haven't found anything in lynx' manual. Can someone help?

I remember seeing a problem like that a year or so back. I eventually
replaced lynx with wget for this purpose, as it is smaller and faster.
But I think the problem with lynx was that the TERM environment variable
wasn't set under cron.

Craig