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    <p>I have 2 php scripts which need to run every few minutes, the php itself is fine as I can trigger it manually by typing <code>http://myfakesite.com/myphpfile.php</code> into a browser. Both work as they should.</p> <p>I don't have much experience with cron but I have found the crontab file (I am using Parallels Power Panel on a VPN), and it already had jobs to run-parts cron.hourly, daily, weekly and monthly. I added my email address to the MAILTO field, and get a message telling me that cron.hourly is not a directory - even though it is (although it is currently empty).</p> <p>I also added my own 2 jobs to this file as follows:</p> <pre><code>*/1 * * * * wget http://myfakesite.com/script1.php */5 * * * * wget http://myfakesite.com/script2.php </code></pre> <p>Neither of these ever get called. In the php script I also have a line to email me once the script is called, so that I know it is working, and have never received an email via the cronjob. If I ssh into the server and use wget the php works and emails me to confirm.</p> <p>I have also tried</p> <pre><code>*/1 * * * * php http://myfakesite.com/script1.php </code></pre> <p>and</p> <pre><code>*/1 * * * * wget -O /dev/null http://myfakesite.com/script1.php&gt;/dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1 </code></pre> <p>with no luck. The MAILTO in the crontab file never sends me a message to say there was a problem running the script, but clearly it is not doing it.</p> <p>Can anyone help at all? I have no idea what to try next.</p> <p>Edit: Found some info that said that the 'not a directory' error can be down to a corrupt crontab file. So I downloaded it copied the info to a new file and uploaded that. The 'not a directory' error disappeared...COMPLETELY. Even if I tell it to look for a folder which I know doesn't exist like cron.myfakefolder I don't get a <code>Not a directory: /etc/cron.myfakefolder</code> email. Replaced my new crontab file with the original, and I'm still not getting any feedback from the cronjob.</p> <p>Edit 2: As dAm2K and prodigitalson suggested, I tried using the absolute paths to both wget and php. Neither have worked, and I've double checked the locations of usr/bin/wget and usr/bin/php just to make sure they were actually there. I also checked var/log/cron and var/log/messages, both contained this:</p> <p>2002Can't perform "download" operation: Requested file "/var/log/cron" is to big to be sent at once. Try to request file in pieces of 512KB</p> <p>No idea what is happening with this. As I mentioned in edit 1, I'm also no longer receiving error emails even when I purposely add a false location. Is this related to the error in the log files?</p> <p>Also, I have checked that crond is running and according to both 'System Services' and 'System Processes' it is running.</p>
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    1. COTry this `*/1 * * * * lynx -dump http://myfakesite.com/script1.php` but you do need lynx
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    2. COHave you tried using the full path to the banaries like `/usr/local/bin/wget` or what have you?
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    3. COI hadn't, just going to try this now
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