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Re: How to use cURL in cron?

From: Spork Schivago <sporkschivago_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 14:00:22 -0400

Chanikya,

On one of my Linux boxes, I can run the run-parts executable to have it
process the crontab entries but I feel Dan is correct and perhaps there's
something wrong with your crontab entry. Maybe try passing the full path
to the curl executable to see if anything changes? Also, for
troubleshooting purposes, perhaps you could redirect the output to some
file, just to see if there's any error messages being thrown, maybe
something like this:

0 6 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/curl --silent http://192.168.3.201/30000/15 2>&1
>/home/youruserdir/cronoutput.log
or something similar.

On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 1:30 AM, Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 08:15:08PM +0000, Chanikya Nadh Desu via
> curl-users wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need this http request to be sent on the network.
> >
> > http://192.168.3.201/30000/15
> >
> > Now I used the following format in the crontab.
> >
> > 0 6 * * 1-5 curl --silent http://192.168.3.201/30000/15
> >
> > And nothing is happening!
> >
> > I am using Ubuntu 16.04
>
> This is unlikely to be a curl problem. Is the curl binary in the standard
> location (/usr/bin/curl)? Is the system time zone what you assume, given
> the
> times in the crontab? Does the command work if run on the command-line?
> Do you have crond installed and running?
>
> >>> Dan
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Received on 2016-10-08