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I know almost nothing about CRON jobs, but we do seem to have a CRON job kicking off a new batch of CiviMail emails (20) every 10 minutes.  This is working.

We are on a standard unix shared hosting server and CRON jobs are setup with the cpanel interface.

I ended up with an email that notifies me each time the CRON job runs.  We created a pop3 mail box for user CRON and send the emails there.  Also, there seems to be a file created by CRON in the root directory of the hosting account (one level above the public directory) that has a file size of 0.

So for a run every 10 minutes, that makes for 1,000 emails and 1,000 files in the root directory each week (6 per hour x 24 hours x 7 days).  Not really that big of a deal and now that we are learning to read pop3 emails with php, I suppose we could use a php program to identify any error emails we wish to keep, delete the other emails and delete files of size 0 from the root directory, but I thought I'd ask if this is normal or if  maybe we just did not set things up properly.

Thanks.

So..... would we

wget '<mydomain>/drupal/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=loginname&pass=mypassword' >/dev/null 2>&1

Is this the right syntax to eliminate the email? 

Not sure about an example and preferred method for the log file.

We run every 10 minutes, clearing out the emails and log files, while not hard is tedious.

Thanks.  Dave

I agree with Piotr and for good measure would add -q which tells wget to be quiet! So the syntax would be:
wget -q -O /dev/null '<mydomain>/drupal/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=loginname&pass=mypassword'


I happen to like curl than wget, so similar syntax for curl would be:
curl -s -o /dev/null '<mydomain>/drupal/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=loginname&pass=mypassword'

I don't see site key in your example syntax.  Are you running an older version of civi of did you just leave it out for simplicity?