Ken Herron said: > --On Wednesday, September 29, 2004 12:44:24 -0700 "Richard S. Crawford" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm trying to get a wget command to execute every five minutes. >> crontab -e looks like this: >> >> */5 * * * * wget -q -O /dev/null http://152.79.198.89/moodle/cron.php >> >> Running the wget command from the command line performs the action >> properly, but it doesn't seem to be happening every five minutes as >> it's supposed to. I've double checked my crontab command and verified >> that crond is running (with ps) but it doesn't seem to be working. > > Cron should log every command that it runs through syslog. First thing > would be to see if cron is actually launching the command on schedule or > not.
According to the system log, the command is indeed being run every five minutes. The PHP script itself is supposed to send out email; when I browse to the page using Lynx or Wget or Firefox, the script runs properly and I see the results in the maillog. > In my experience, the usual reason that commands work interactively but > not from cron is that they depend on something in your interactive > environment. Perhaps wget isn't in the PATH that cron uses, or it > requires some environment variable to be set? Well, I've now included the full path to wget -- /usr/bin/wget -- but that doesn't seem to have done it. I can't find any documentation about environment variables that wget might need, and no indication that it's failing in the system logs. Argh! _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
