Hi,
Following the instructions in the installation text of Drupal, I used -- in the cron manager of my cpanel -- the following crontab line to call my cron page (every hour, that is):
0 * * * * wget -O - -q http://www.example.com/cron.php
Everthing's been working fine until a few days ago when cron stopped working and the crontab program started sending me the following error message whenever my cron tasks were supposed to run (that is, every hour):
/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/wget: Permission denied
When I reported this to my host, they sent me the following message:
"we have set denied access to the program wget since it poses as a security issue. please give us more info why you are using wget. if it is part of a script, can send us a copy so we can look at it?"
Right now, I am about to reply that I have used the aforementioned crontab line, and will ask them any alternatives to wget.
In the meantime, while I'm waiting for their reply, perhaps I can get a quick solution from the ever-dependable Drupal community. :) May I ask what would be an alternative to wget that I could use in my crontab line? Or more specifically, what crontab line can I use?
I've looked at the related threads but I'm a bit confused with all the options. (Note: I don't have shell access. Well, I can get one but still have to fax my ID to my host. :))
Thanks in adv