Cron Job to call a Web Page?

[redbrad1]

I have been looking all over the internet and I can not seem to find how to setup CRON to call a web page. I do not want it to just call the page but actually request the URL so it is phrased by the engine.

Can someone help point me in how to do this?

Brad

 

[cPanelKenneth]

wget will request a remote web page:

wget http://www.example.com

Create a script that calls wget then add the script to cron

Or use wget directly from cron

 

[gupi]

Try one of these in your crontab:

*/15 * * * * /usr/bin/lynx http://www.mydom.ain/page.html > /dev/null

*/15 * * * * GET http://www.mydom.ain/page.html > /dev/null

 

[redbrad1]

wget worked great but now I am starting to see files appear in my FTP directory from it calling this script. Is there a way to not have it create a temporary file or to delete the temporary file after its done with it?

 

[HelloAdam]

Hey,

I use the

lynx

function and it works awesome

lynx -dump http://www.CoolLookingSite.com

From,
Adam

 

[redbrad1]

Adam,

This requests a url that you specify and will not create the temporary files?

lynx -dump http://www.CoolLookingSite.com/automated-page.php

 

[HelloAdam]

Adam,

This requests a url that you specify and will not create the temporary files?

lynx -dump http://www.CoolLookingSite.com/automated-page.php

Hey,

Never did for me. Also where are you seeing these temporary files (what folder)?

From,
Ada

 

[redbrad1]

The files are being stored in /home/accountname/ so the folder looks like below. All the items in red I delete out once a day or whenever I get a chance and of course I didnt feel like listing out all 38 that are currently in the directory

.cpanel-datastore
etc
mail
public_ftp
public_html
tmp
.bash_logout
.bash_profile
.bashrc
.contactemail
.dns
.emacs
.gtkrc
.lastlogin
.spamkey
final-ticket-sales.php
final-ticket-sales.php.1
final-ticket-sales.php.10
final-ticket-sales.php.11
final-ticket-sales.php.12
final-ticket-sales.php.13
final-ticket-sales.php.14
final-ticket-sales.php.15

 

[HelloAdam]

Hey,

Well using my command, doesn't do that on my end. It could also be a root server setting which could be causing this, however I wouldn't know which one. If worst comes to worst, you can always create another cronjob to delete those files :p

From,
Adam

 

[redbrad1]

Looks like

lynx -dump http://www.CoolLookingSite.com/automated-page.php

did the trick, and does not create a temporary file. Thanks for your help.