Problems with cron jobs

[Omar]

I have a serious problem with a cron job:

The cron job seems to be working correctly, it is part of a server monitoring script, and it seems to be setup correctly in cpanel:

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curl http://www.domain.com/path/to/cron/cron_page.php /dev/null 2&&1
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I use curl instead of GET because GET seems to use more of the CPU.

But I get an e-mail sent to the main e-mail account (username, not a mail account that I setup) every time the cron task runs (I have replaced certain info for security reasons):

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Subject: Cron &username@servername& http://www.domain.com/path/to/cron/cron_page.php

Message Content:

/bin/sh: http://www.domain.com/path/to/cron/cron_page.php: No such file or directory
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As I said, the server monitoring is working perfectly, but I can't figure out why it's sending all these e-mails, especially when I've specified the /dev/null part.

I have just recently noticed this problem, and I have an inbox full of about 20,000 + e-mails.

A customer brought it to my attention because they are running a very similar cron task to fetch a webpage, and their account quota was relatively small, so the huge number of e-mails pushed their space to the limit.

I would appreciate any help on this matter.

Thank-you

- Omar

[Omar]

It seems there are also some e-mails that have the following in them instead:

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% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Curr.
Dload Upload Total Current Left Speed

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:00 --:--:-- 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:00 --:--:-- 0
curl: (3) &url& malformed

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[Omar]

*bump*

Any help would be appreciated

[Omar]

Bumping again

Some more of my customers have started using cron jobs, and this is becoming a problem

I would appreciate ANY help

- Omar

[Annette]

Based on the URL string, it doesn't look like you're actually directing the output anywhere. Between the URL and dev/null, shouldn't there be a director?

curl http://www.domain.com/path/to/cron/cron_page.php & /dev/null 2&&1

That should kill off the mail notices.