From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 22 20:11:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sapphire.hypostasis.com (210-55-152-58.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.152.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE0DE15179 for ; Sat, 22 May 1999 20:11:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kit@hypostasis.com) Received: from amethyst.hypostasis.com (amethyst.hypostasis.com [192.168.2.2]) by sapphire.hypostasis.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA11567 for ; Sun, 23 May 1999 15:05:47 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from kit@amethyst.hypostasis.com) Received: (from kit@localhost) by amethyst.hypostasis.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id PAA19883 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 23 May 1999 15:11:02 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from kit) Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 15:11:02 +1200 From: Kit Mitchell To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Cron and Lynx Message-ID: <19990523151102.A18616@amethyst.hypostasis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi It seems I may have been barking in the wrong direction Anyone able to suggest why lynx is unable to access a page when run from cron ? using the cron line */5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/lynx -dump http://192.168.1.254:84/shell/show+ip+interfaces give the response below. the same command at the command line is OK - would this imply an effect of the restricted environment? tia --kit kit@xtra.co.nz ----- Forwarded message from Cron Daemon ----- Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 14:50:00 +1200 (NZST) From: root (Cron Daemon) To: kit Subject: Cron /usr/local/bin/lynx -dump http://192.168.1.254:84/shell/show+ip+interfaces X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: Exiting via interrupt: 15 lynx: Can't access startfile http://192.168.1.254:84/shell/show+ip+interfaces ----- End forwarded message ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message