Help! Daily event using wget

[DeanW]

I'm writing an ezine/followup script and I'm using a dailymail.php script to process the daily followup emails. The best way to run this script is by using wget as I don't want my users to need to know too much (like their home directory on the web host) to use the script. Running the script with wget will ensure it's executed from the same directory as the config.php file. The problem is, wget saves files with the output of the page it grabs. Even though dailymail.php produces no output it still creates a file of 0 bytes.

I don't really want to run dailymail.php from the commandline via a PHP command line interpreter as, like I said before, that would require my users to know their home directory (to include the config.php file with the database information)...

Does anyone have a better solution or perhaps enough knowledge of wget to provide a workaround? Basically it works perfectly other than the files being saved.

My script so far can be found at http://mfware.com/listmaildemo .. you can test it by entering "demo" as the password.

Please reply with your thoughts on a solution.

Dean

[Skunk]

Use lynx instead?

lynx -dump http://localhost/script.php > /dev/null

That will cause lynx to dump the page accessed straight to /dev/null - I'm using at the moment in a cron job thingy to update my signature once every ten minutes on another forum Someone posted that solution on these forums a while back (can't remember who) and it's proved extreemly useful ever since.

[fig]

Originally posted by Skunk
Use lynx instead?

lynx -dump http://localhost/script.php > /dev/null

That will cause lynx to dump the page accessed straight to /dev/null - I'm using at the moment in a cron job thingy to update my signature once every ten minutes on another forum Someone posted that solution on these forums a while back (can't remember who) and it's proved extreemly useful ever since.

Could someone explain to me what /dev/null is?

I've tried the above suggestion but it causes an email to be sent to me with the following message: "Your terminal lacks the ability to clear the screen or position the cursor."

Any idea how I can avoid getting this emailed to me? (the script does run and that's nice).

thanks,
john

[vsantola]

/dev/null is something like a "empty device" in *nix systems that is used to send output that you don't want to use... something like a garbage collector