weird wget/curl problems

[Collins Richey]

On 8/11/06, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> I use freedns.afraid.org for providing a static domain name for the
> dynamic IP of my home DSL connection.  I've had this bizarre problem for a
> few weeks now, where hitting the URL which updates the IP assigned to my
> domain name fails with both wget & curl when run from a cronjob.  Yet, if
> I run it again manually, it works.
>

> I can't figure out why its doing this at all.  Anyone have any ideas why
> wget & curl wouldn't work via a cronjob?
>

With cron jobs that work correctly when run standalone, it's usually
(almost always) the path or the environment that is different. Is this
a script or just a bare command? If the latter, try imbedding it in a
script. Does the cron job use an absolute path? If not, try that. Does
the command depend on some (hopefully documented) shell environment
variable?

HTH,

-- 
Collins Richey
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