Cronjob best solution

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MikeMc

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Hi,

could you tell me which solution is the best for calling an url via cpanel cronjobs?

- lynx
- GET
- wget
- fetch

Thank you
 
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jimcarter

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I use curl,
But I have found that using wget is more reliable, but it is a pain when you get a load of downloaded files in your home directory, so I usually add another cron job to delete the file after downloading it,
Thanks
 
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gic

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Couldn't you just add > /dev/null to the end instead of making a new cron job to do this? I am not very good with this, but I have see this before.
 
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ecoutez

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wget has a --delete-after option which already takes care of this. ie:

0,15,30,45 * * * * root /usr/bin/wget --delete-after http://username:[email protected]/script.php > /dev/null

- Jason
 
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