Does anyone know how to create a script using VI to open mozilla, go to a url, then close the browser after it's finished loading?

i got the open part for ya...i'm lost as to how to close it though, sorry

1. Open up a new terminal window
2. CD to the directory you want to save the shell script in
3. type "vi mozilla.sh" or whatever you want it to be called (must end in .sh)
4. Hit " I " to switch to insert mode
5. copy the following into the file
6. hit ESC
7. type " :wq " to save the file and quit
8. now, to run the script, just type " sh mozilla.sh "
closing will be much more difficult, at least for the newb like me. So for i know you hafta use " ps -ef | grep mozilla " ...thats about it

Thanks a bunch for replying!! The open part gets the job done for now, and works. To close it, I though about somehow finding the process then killing it, but I'm not really sure how to go about that. Hopefully someone else will reply

no problem, the close function can be done, rather easily too...i've seen an example of it, and tried to implement it in this case, but i'm just a newb too...so i plain and simply dont have the skills yet...o well, newbs rejoice!

If you re just trying to access a url and not look at the result use wget or lynx. Is it similar to this thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...808#post275808

As for the kill part - just extract the PID from "ps -ef" then "kill -9 MOZILLAsPID".

How could I get all of this to run automatically without me typing in the commands?

What are you trying to do?

Just access a page without you doing anything? Set:
lynx -dump http://www.myurl.com/mypage.html
to run as a cron job.

PS the -dump returns the output with the HTML removed so you can send the output to a file for logging purposes.

well, yeah, even i could figure that out =P But whats the code for that?

Ok, I have it typed in like this under contab, but it doesn't run. It only runs if I type it in at the terminal.

15 * * * * root /var/scripts/open-browser.sh

Did I do something wrong here?

mozilla http://www.yahoo.com &

sleep 5
output=`ps -C mozilla-bin`

pid=${output:28:6}
kill $pid

exit 0

I did this which does exactly what you asked for although that's all it does opens and closes the browser at the specified page. Not sure if it'll only work on my setup, Java is more my thing, and it's definitely not robust. I've only been looking at scripting for practically all of 2 minutes. 'Tis fun though

What does the root command do?
15 * * * * root /var/scripts/open-browser.sh

shouldn't it just be:
15 * * * * /var/scripts/open-browser.sh

Then pu it in your crontab with:
crontab /path/to/cron.file

Then check it with:
crontab -l

Thanks all!!! Everything is working great. You guys saved my butt

What are you trying to do exactly? Find out when a website fails?