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Title: Dailymail password problem
Post by: whitec on February 12, 2007, 01:33:17 am

In trying to set up dailymail, I've run into an issue I can't get a handle on...

I attempt to run the dailymail script from the command line, using this syntax:

/usr/bin/wget -q -O /dev/null -T 0 http://www.mydomain.com/mail/dailymail.php?pw=mypassword 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null

Substituting my domain and password in the appropriate spots. When I do this, I get the following command prompt message:

/usr/bin/wget: No match.

If I remove the "?pw=mypassword" from the line, it seems to run fine -- or at least it doesn't return an error message. This makes me think the "no match" message is saying the dailymail password didn't match.

I've double-checked and triple-checked my dailymail password, even changing it in both the configuration screen and in the wget line, but it still gives me the same message.

Anyone run into this before?

Title: Dailymail password problem
Post by: DW on February 12, 2007, 04:33:21 pm

Greetings,

Your OS is probably interpreting the ? as a wildcard character in a filename.  This is more common, I think, on FreeBSD systems.

The fix might be to either escape the question mark, ie:

/usr/bin/wget -q -O /dev/null -T 0 http://www.mydomain.com/mail/dailymail.php\?pw=mypassword 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null

or surround the URL in quotes, ie:

/usr/bin/wget -q -O /dev/null -T 0 "http://www.mydomain.com/mail/dailymail.php?pw=mypassword" 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null

Also the -q parameter should not be required since we redirect file output (-O), standard output (1>) and error output (2>) to /dev/null.

Regards

Title: Dailymail password problem
Post by: whitec on February 12, 2007, 05:02:58 pm

Worked like a charm!

Thanks very much. I'll try the scheduler tonight.

Chris