Selfhost Domain Service (Setting up a cron job)

ASP · 11-28-2003, 11:14 AM

Ok, this should be an easy question.

I am trying to set up a cron job to request a specific web page every 2 minutes, to keep my selfhost domain refreshed.

I'm running RH9.

Jinkzer · 12-01-2003, 11:26 AM

If you just want to request the indexpage, this might help

crontab -e

add

*/2 * * * * wget -r www.yourdomain.com 1> /dev/null

the -r switch will write over the file every download, if you don't want to download the indexfile add the --spider switch.

try wget from a shell before to see that it's working.

ASP · 12-01-2003, 07:30 PM

Thanks for the response, but that didn't work. The URL is quite a bit more complicated... (some parts modified for security reasons)

http://www.selfhost.com/xRemote.asp?...75892758924...

(a bunch more numbers)

If I try that with WGET I just get errors. Any other ideas?

ASP

Jinkzer · 12-02-2003, 12:49 AM

What kind of errors do you get when you run it from terminal?