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Old 05-21-2002
Data One line of cron is not working - PLS Help
Hi all,
I have spent 2 hours going through the forum and have not found an answer to my question, I hope someone can help.

I have cron setup to run two commands, one at 1am and one at 3 am, the one at 1 am works but not the one at 3 am. The time is set as:

0 1 * * * /path/to/file
0 3 * * * /path/to/file

The second command I was told to call it with cron as http:// but I have tried it 4 different ways and it still does not work. It I pull it up in my browser it works just fine, but not from cron. It is something like the following, (all 4 ways I have tried it):

0 3 * * * http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/myscript/myscript.cgi?pssw=scriptpassword&action=command&emailaccounts=email1@mydomain.com,email2@mydomain.co m,email3@mydomain.com,email4@mydomain.com

0 3 * * * http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/myscript/myscript.cgi?pssw=scriptpassword&action=command&emailaccounts=email1%40mydomain.com,email2%40mydomai n.com,email3%40mydomain.com,email4%40mydomain.com

0 3 * * * /user/myaccount/web/cgi-bin/myscript/myscript.cgi?pssw=scriptpassword&action=command&emailaccounts=email1@mydomain.com,email2@mydomain.co m,email3@mydomain.com,email4@mydomain.com

0 3 * * * /user/myaccount/web/cgi-bin/myscript/myscript.cgi?pssw=scriptpassword&action=command&emailaccounts=email1%40mydomain.com,email2%40mydomai n.com,email3%40mydomain.com,email4%40mydomain.com

Like I said above I know cron works because I have another job on the first line that worked just fine. Any help here would be appricated.
# 2  
Old 05-21-2002
Here are a few troubleshooting questions.

1) Can you run this from the command line? and not as you have in example #3 mid-way down your post?

2) Is your first cron entry also calling from http or from a unix file?

3) Just a guess but I don't know if cron can interpret the ? in your cron entries. You may need to put a \ before that ?.


Hope these help you!!

Smilie
# 3  
Old 05-21-2002
Answers to the questions:
1) No
2) .cgi file, with server path.
3) tried that and it didn't work.

The command works fine from a browser, what I need to be able to do is run it from my server with Cron. Any ideas on how that might be done (guesses are welcome)

Thanks
# 4  
Old 05-22-2002
Quote:
Answers to the questions:
1) No
If you can't execute it on the command line, how is cron supposed to know how?

If you can find a way on the command line (using lynx, for example), you can add that line to cron.
 
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