Cameron, >I have a project where I need to update a database with changing info >about every 20 mins - I figured the cron.quarter-hourly would work >great, and made up a php script to update the database and make some >other tweaks. this runs fine from a shell with "lynx >http://www.site.com/something.php -dump" but cron emails me saying "your >terminal cannot change lines or move the cursor" is there any way to >make lynx play nice? Put "TERM=vt100" in your script, like: TERM=vt100 lynx http://www.site.com/something.php -dump Works for me. Bye, Edwin Martin. -- Surf Edwin Martin's brainwaves: http://www.bitstorm.org/edwin/