Cron Help Please!!!

[carl1]

I have tried it several ways and nothing:

1. using SSh via the vi editor I copy and past the line of code but the "15 1 * * *" part never copies over?

2. creating a text file and then entering "crontab filename" command to install. If I use the "crontab -l" it shows that it's scheduled but nothing happens?

3. coping the a text file with the code into the cron.daily folder (supposed to run at 4am every day). There are other files in that cron.daily folder that run everyday??? I don't get it.

What is up? I have wget installed and I can see other crontab commands are running on my server.

Honestly, I knew nothing about cron before I read the help of ListMail so any help or advice with details would be great!!!!

thanks

check with your host if you have wget. if don't have wget,  you may use lynx as...  usr/path/lynx -dump http://mywebsite.com/mail/dailymail.php?pw=yourdailymailpass>dev/null

place the above directly in your crontab or have your host do it for you.

I hope this helps. This how I made mine work.
good luck

[carl1]

I do have wget. Now what?

[DW]

It is recommended that you type "cron howto" into Google and read a bit about cron.  Perhaps you could practice scheduling a simple dummy command, like the following, to become familiar with the process.

0 0 * * * /bin/true