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[tomt]

What is the proper format for a cron job in cpanel to execute a url? I tried this, but it does not seem to work.

wget -q http://theUrlIwantToExecute.com

Thanks

[NYDAz]

did you check if wget is installed ?

[perkiset]

What do you mean, "it does not work?" WGet will try to pull the page to the startup directory, so the result may just not be going where you want it.

If I was doing this, I'd wrap the wget into a little shell script that not only pulled the file back to a known directory, but also "touched" another file to make sure it was firing off as expected. Something like:

cd /usr/home/mydirectory
touch ./lastPull
wget http://www.mydomain.com/

Then I'd be able to confirm that the script was executed, and see exactly what was pulled down.

[tomt]

I am not a linux guy. I am though getting familiar with cpanel. But I gave up on cron. My son wrote me a little vb.net timer program that I placed on a windows server, so my problem is solved. Since I am executing a url it doesn't matter where the command came from. This works, since Sunday night my program has been getting executed once an hour right to the minute. I get an email report each time.

Thanks,
Tom Thomas

[perkiset]

I am not a linux guy. I am though getting familiar with cpanel. But I gave up on cron. My son wrote me a little vb.net timer program that I placed on a windows server, so my problem is solved. Since I am executing a url it doesn't matter where the command came from. This works, since Sunday night my program has been getting executed once an hour right to the minute. I get an email report each time.

Well done Tom ... a solution is a solution, regardless of platform.