[vox-tech] Problem with crond?

[Chris Jenks]

   Dear Richard,

   Maybe use /usr/bin/wget instead of wget? Any email from crond? How about 
a simple command like touch file?

   Chris

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Richard S. Crawford 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.