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Old 12-11-2009
Run webpage from cron
I am running into a issue.

How would you run a http:// page from cron?

I tried directly from cron but no luck.

I tried a sh script with no luck.

Code:
#!/bin/sh
PERL_PATH=/usr/bin/perl
$PERL_PATH "/fullpath/cgi-bin/search/indexer.cgi?login=indexer&pwd=spider"

and

Code:
#!/bin/sh
PERL_PATH=/usr/bin/perl
$PERL_PATH "http://site/cgi-bin/search/indexer.cgi?login=indexer&pwd=spider"

I get file not found.
# 2  
Old 12-11-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by mrlayance
I am running into a issue.

How would you run a http:// page from cron?

What do you mean by "run a web page"?

Web pages are files to be displayed by a browser, not run by an interpreter.
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