On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 03:45:57PM +0100, Álvaro Pinel Bueno wrote: > El mar., 17 dic. 2019 a las 15:36, Tim Rühsen (<[email protected]>) > escribió: > > > are you sure that " and * are not somehow removed / expanded ? > > > > To test, put the wget command into a shell script and start that script > > in the crontab. Does this make a difference ? > > > > Yes, I fact I realized this behavior using wget inside a bash script in > crontab, I copied the wget line from the script and added isolated to > root-cron and the behavior keep going. > Isn't the unwanted resolution of a the machine hostname performed by cron (or a sendmail command)? Cron can send an output of a job through e-mail. And by default it sends it to the owner of the crontab at the hostname. I would replace the wget command with something that prints to stdout and stderr and maybe exists with a non-zero exit code to verify that.
-- Pete
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