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Posted by WO Hostings, 06-10-2007, 03:11 PM
Ok, i'm trying to setup our helpdesk and need to run a cron job. Done what the manual of Kayako explained and added a cron: */5 * * * * root GET http://www.domain.com/support/cron/index.php?_t=parser I went onto CPanel and inserted the Cron as: */5 * * * * GET http://www.domain.com/support/cron/index.php?_t=parser Nothing worked, however when I used the URL manually it parsed and sent the emails through, so the error is with the cron job. So next I tried: */5 * * * * root GET http://www.domain.com/support/cron/index.php?_t=parser Nothing worked.. I decided to check the output and I am receiving this error: /bin/sh: GET: command not found (for the one without root in front) and /bin/sh: root: command not found (for the one with root in) Can someone advise me?
Posted by HostSentry, 06-10-2007, 03:36 PM
Are you replacing domain.com with your domain? Edit: I had to ask. Also, did you try the non advanced mode?
Posted by WO Hostings, 06-10-2007, 03:39 PM
Yes, of course I replaced it with our full URL to the script. Also, I have tried in both advanced and basic, still the same. However I also have WHMAuto running cron's and they work fine.
Posted by HostSentry, 06-10-2007, 03:53 PM
I have had a similar problem with cPanel cron jobs, I cannot remember why exactly but it did start working later in the day. That was a couple of years ago. Now I just do the crontab through ssh
Posted by WO Hostings, 06-10-2007, 04:09 PM
WHMAuto's cron's arent working now..
Posted by martymart, 06-10-2007, 04:25 PM
yeah i have the same problem with WHMCS's crons 0 9 * * * /usr/local/bin/php -q /home/domain/public_html/helpdesk/admin/cron.php and the result is always /bin/sh: 0: command not found
Posted by WO Hostings, 06-10-2007, 04:26 PM
Ive just been told to use the wget command instead of GET, and it's worked.. just has a report of permission denied but still works.
Posted by WO Hostings, 06-10-2007, 05:07 PM
Well, done it via SSH now, and using wget and working fine.. Cheers
Posted by M3TechSolutions, 06-10-2007, 11:23 PM
Hmm beat me to it.. for some reason WGET works alot more then get does. I am not 100% sure why but it does..

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