I've written a program using the bourne shell (I think)
that goes through a database and for each line does
The whole point of this was to later move it into the crontab so that once a day it would run this program on a website. Now that I've gotten all the bugs out, I can open my terminal and run the program. It comes up with the website using lynx and tells me I'm successful. However, when I moved it into the crontab it sent me an email saying Your terminal lacks the ability to clear the screen or position the cursor. I typed man lynx to see if there were any ways around this, and couldn't find any. It said something about -term, but I couldn't find enough info about it for it to make sense to me. Is there some way to make the program think my terminal does have those abilities, or to make it ignore that completely? Or maybe even make the program open up a terminal window and then run? I've searched this forum and other sites and my Unix in a Nutshell book, but can't find anything. Thanks a lot for your help and for having the patience to read this far!
Linux detected my modem(finally!) and I then proceeded it to configure it with Minicom according to the instructions here. I got it configured, and can dial up to my ISP, but now I am trying to figure out how to get Lynx to use the connection. Any ideas? (3 Replies)
Hi there!
I one saw a command that allowed to download a file using lynx from an HTTP server without opening lynx itself.
Looked something like this:
$ lynx -xyz http://localhost/foo.bar ~/foo.bar
I looked into lynx manpages and help but didn't find anything.
Thank you in advance (2 Replies)
Is there a particular style that works better than the default for lynx / links / other text-browsers?
Since my most commonly-used home machines have of RAM, I try to avoid XWindows / Netscape as much as possible. I have found, however, that the default isn't very easy to navigate in 24x80... (1 Reply)
Just wondered if anyone knows of a Javascript thing for Lynx,
would be happy to be able to enter even such pages...
Please answer if you know something about it...
I'm using Linux 2.2.19, Slackware and Lynx 2.8.3...
Thanks for answering...=) (7 Replies)
I want to browse to java.sun.. to download Java JDK
I built openSSL then tried to build lynx to use it by:
./configure --with-ssl
It finds the ssl .h files but cant link, last 3 lines from .configure are:
checking for openssl include directory... yes
checking if we can link to ssl... (6 Replies)
So... I'm using lynx on a Mac... I didn't know that the whole dang thing is in Terminal? I rarely use terminal. I can't even figure out how to start the thing up. I type in lynx into it and press enter... And the cursor just goes down. Nothing happens like the FAQ websites describe. I feel so... (6 Replies)
My intention is to go through list of addresses and call google geocode api for each of them. I am using lynx for this, but somehow I can't supply the parameters to it in a proper way.
To show that my parameters are OK I just hardcoded one address in my script and put it in my input file, and... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT XFREE86
openvt
OPENVT(1) Linux 1.x OPENVT(1)NAME
openvt - start a program on a new virtual terminal (VT).
SYNOPSIS
openvt [-c vtnumber] [OPTIONS] [--] command
DESCRIPTION
openvt will find the first available VT, and run on it the given command with the given command options, standard input, output and error
are directed to that terminal. The current search path ($PATH) is used to find the requested command. If no command is specified then the
environment variable $SHELL is used.
OPTIONS
-c, --console=VTNUMBER
Use the given VT number and not the first available. Note you must have write access to the supplied VT for this to work;
-f, --force
Force opening a VT without checking whether it is already in use;
-e, --exec
Directly execute the given command, without forking. This option is meant for use in /etc/inittab. If you want to use this feature
in another context, be aware that openvt has to be a session leader in order for -e to work. See setsid(2) or setsid(1) on how to
achieve this.
-s, --switch
Switch to the new VT when starting the command. The VT of the new command will be made the new current VT;
-u, --user
Figure out the owner of the current VT, and run login as that user. Suitable to be called by init. Shouldn't be used with -c or -l;
-l, --login
Make the command a login shell. A - is prepended to the name of the command to be executed;
-v, --verbose
Be a bit more verbose;
-w, --wait
wait for command to complete. If -w and -s are used together then openvt will switch back to the controlling terminal when the com-
mand completes;
-V, --version
print program version and exit;
-h, --help
show this text and exit.
-- end of options to openvt.
NOTE
If openvt is compiled with a getopt_long() and you wish to set options to the command to be run, then you must supply the end of options --
flag before the command.
EXAMPLES
openvt can be used to start a shell on the next free VT, by using the command:
openvt bash
To start the shell as a login shell, use:
openvt -l bash
To get a long listing you must supply the -- separator:
openvt -- ls -l
HISTORY
Earlier, openvt was called open. It was written by Jon Tombs <jon@gtex02.us.es or jon@robots.ox.ac.uk>. The -w idea is from "sam".
SEE ALSO chvt(1), doshell(8), login(1)19 Jul 1996 V1.4 OPENVT(1)