Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx crontab issue.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2011, Helmut Hullen wrote:

> Hallo, Bilal,
>
> Du meintest am 28.06.11:
>
> > I am using lynx in one my script that's working fine.
> > But the script is put in to crontab its does not work. Any solution
> > for this?
>
> "cron" has a very small PATH. Perhaps you have to change all pathes to
> the absolute form.

The most common problem in this area used to be that lynx was attempting
to initialize the display (and that setting TERM would help).  I thought
that was fixed except for slang-based configurations (which are fairly 
rare now).

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