On 8 Jul 2005, at 9:47 AM, Rob wrote:
I have tried the command line several ways:
00 * * * * http://www.cmlhope.com/drupal/cron.php
and
0,15,30,45 * * * * wget -q http://www.cmlhope.com/drupal/cron.php
This the error message I am getting back now.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cron Daemon" root@venus.nswebhost.com To: rob@rwneill.com Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 10:00 AM Subject: Cron cmlhope@venus 00 * * * * http://www.cmlhope.com/drupal/cron.php
/bin/sh: line 1: 00: command not found
This looks to me as if you are submitting a line from your crontab file as input to your shell (/bin/sh).
The crontab entry should be present as a line in your crontab. If you are trying to set this up from the command line, you would normally use the command 'crontab' to do this. Crontab will start up a text editor which will let you enter the line. It checks for correct syntax and then modifies the file. See the Unix manual pages for crontab for more details.
If you are using a web interface, it will likely have a form which will let you specify the command to execute, and the periods for which you wish the command executed. In this case the command would consist of only the last part of the crontab line 'wget -q http:// ...'
The error message is also telling you that you typed '00' rather than '0 0', which may or may not give you the result you expect, depending on your system (and your expectations :)
Djun