[SOLVED] lynx as a background process

genderbender · 09-11-2010, 02:02 PM

I'm writing a script which will simulate multiple users connecting to my webserver (and remaining connected, hence the use of lynx and not curl). I can specify a number of hits but lynx flags up as a foreground process which I then need to exit out of for the next 'hit' to get processed. I guess what I need is for lynx to connect to a page, then get sent to the background and then another lynx 'hit' is formed. Code below:

Code:

URL=www.myserver.com
echo -n "specify number of hits: "
read TIMES

function hitit {
for i in $(seq 1 $TIMES); do
        {
        lynx -accept_all_cookies "$URL" > /dev/null 2>/dev/null &

};
done
}
hitit

I'm a little new to the background process concep, perhaps someone could help

unSpawn · 09-12-2010, 06:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by genderbender

I'm writing a script which will simulate multiple users connecting to my webserver

Aren't there tools for doing that?.........

Quote:

Originally Posted by genderbender

I can specify a number of hits but lynx flags up as a foreground process which I then need to exit out of for the next 'hit' to get processed.

If you don't care about interactively controlling the process later on then at the time when you've backgrounded a suitable amount of processes you could say 'disown -a' them? Kill them later on with 'pkill -9 lynx'.

ghostdog74 · 09-12-2010, 08:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by genderbender

(and remaining connected, hence the use of lynx and not curl).

curl keeps connection alive by default.