weird wget/curl problems

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Collins Richey wrote:
> 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?

Its embedded in a bash script which includes the logic to check whether 
the IP address has changed.  The command is nothing more than:
/usr/bin/curl $url

I've also tried :
/usr/bin/wget $url

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