Can't get Cron job (Dailymail) to work

[hp3kman]

When I input the cron job as directed, I get this error:

/home/maynard/news.ecometrist.com/adsmart/dailymail.php?pw=password: Unsupported scheme.

Am I doing something wrong?

In addition, I have scheduled mails that never went...could this have caused that (I didn't have my MAILTO setup in my cron file initially).

Thanks!

[DW]

Your cron task needs to call the linux utility "wget" as per http://www.listmailpro.com/help/10.html

ie:

/usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null -T 0 http://yoursite.com/mail/dailymail.php?pw=YourDailyMailPass 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null

It appears that you are trying to run dailymail.php as a linux CGI by specifying the direct path.  This is sometimes not allowed with PHP scripts.

[hp3kman]

I had tried that, but it didn't seem to be working...if I had scheduled email, shouldn't it have sent them???

I've changed it back and now have the MAILTO set...let's see what happens.

Thanks!

[DW]

To be sure if it's working enable "Send report to admin when dailymail runs" on the config page.

[hp3kman]

Dunno, but now...several days later, I get this:

/bin/sh: - : unrecognized option
Usage:   /bin/sh [GNU long option] [option] ...
   /bin/sh [GNU long option] [option] script-file ...
GNU long options:
 <edited>

Help!

[DW]

It seems that you are calling the script directly via it's local filename.  The cron task command should use the URL with the wget program, as follows:

/usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null -T 0 http://yoursite.com/mail/dailymail.php?pw=YourDailyMailPass 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null

[hp3kman]

Sorry, but that is exactly how I'm calling it...

[DW]

I am not sure why it would say:

/bin/sh: - : unrecognized option

The hyphen, or "-", character is not at the beginning of the command passed to sh.  (The "sh" program in turn runs "/usr/bin/wget")

Please submit a tech support request along with notes about the error and I will take a look.

http://listmailpro.com/support?t=other