[vox-tech] Problem with crond?

[Ken Herron]

--On Wednesday, September 29, 2004 12:44:24 -0700 "Richard S. Crawford" 
<rscrawford at mossroot.com> 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.

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?

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