[Zope] RE: refresh page

K H Subrahmanyan subrahmanyan.kalathur@wipro.com
Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:42:46 +0530


Hi, 
   thanks for the response.
Sorry for disturbing u again.

What is that CRONTAB. 
what is lynx.
How to enter cron to run lynx to call that page.

subrahmanyan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: oren@mindcitetech.com [mailto:oren@mindcitetech.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 1:34 PM
> To: K H Subrahmanyan
> Subject: Re: refresh page
> 
> 
> --- In zope@y..., "K H Subrahmanyan" <subrahmanyan.kalathur@w...> wrote:
> > hi,
> >   I am using ZOPE in LINUX RedHat 6.2
> > 
> > My application need to send mails everyday to the people.
> > For that I have written one Dtml method. which will refresh every
> > 24hr.(using html tags.)
> > But for that, that page should be running in the browser always.
> > 
> > That I don't want.
> > Is there any other solution for that.
> > subrahmanyan.
> 
> You can do the following:
> setup your DTML method to return an empty page is all goes well.
> then, in you CRONTAB, enter a cron entry to run lynx (a 
> text-based browser) ,calling this 
> page. if the return value is empty, then all went well.
> 
> Oren 
>