Mailer Cron Job - best set up?

Hello,

I am trying to set up a cron job that will send out the Mailer emails.

The e-mails get sent out when i manually click the link, but the cron job isn't triggering it automatically.

I have checked with my hosting service, and they say that the logs show that the cron job is running hourly just as set up, and yet i'm not getting any email as a result.

And again, then i manually click the link in the Joomla back-end, and it processes and sends them correctly.

(...There isn't much in the Docs about the needed / appropriate wget command other than contact your hosting server.)

What am I missing?

Here is the command i'm using:
(...the link is the one taken from Mailer : Automation Settings)

Is there a different or better wget command that I should use instead?


Thanks for your help getting the cron job to run the mailer script!

gilbertstudios wrote: Hello,

I am trying to set up a cron job that will send out the Mailer emails.

The e-mails get sent out when i manually click the link, but the cron job isn't triggering it automatically.

I have checked with my hosting service, and they say that the logs show that the cron job is running hourly just as set up, and yet i'm not getting any email as a result.

And again, then i manually click the link in the Joomla back-end, and it processes and sends them correctly.

(...There isn't much in the Docs about the needed / appropriate wget command other than contact your hosting server.)

What am I missing?

Here is the command i'm using:

Code:

wget -q -O /dev/null (http://--LINK--)

(...the link is the one taken from Mailer : Automation Settings)

Is there a different or better wget command that I should use instead?


Thanks for your help getting the cron job to run the mailer script!

You should really contact your host about this as each host has prefered method.

I did contact my host. They said the logs showed the cron job was running, and that was really all they could do.

They said:

I did check on the syslogs and there is a cron job running every hour
under your user. The last cron that ran was at 10 am PST which I pasted
output below;

May 29 10:00:03 ninkasi CRON[28829]: (username) CMD
(/usr/local/bin/setlock -n /tmp/cronlock.3788884334.189990 sh -c $'wget
-q -O /dev/null
http\072//www...link removed...')

So it is running. However I couldn't tell if its executing properly for
you. That would be something you would need to test and troubleshoot
along with your developers.

Is there something specific I should ask them to check?

What else can I do to make this work?

Thanks for your help.