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I am having a heck of a time getting a simple cron task to run and use the update script. It seems to be confused by the URL with the last string containing the username and password and I get results like "must have username and password" even though I've included it in the wget and curl statements. Can anyone send me the line from their cron so I can compare it to mine (below)?

wget http://www.domain.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/UpdateMembershipRecord.php?name=username&pass=password

This is my result:

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 40 [text/html]
UpdateMembershipRecord.php?name=cronjob: Permission denied
Cannot write to `UpdateMembershipRecord.php?name=cronjob' (Permission denied).


Thanks Lobo! I'll give it a try.

I'm not an expert on this - but I think wget is trying to write the output messages from the script to that filename. I "fixed" this by adding single quotes around the URL:

$ 'wget http://www.domain.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/UpdateMembershipRecord.php\?name=username\&pass=password'

However, I think it might make sense to add the "append to logfile" directive and point to a writeable directory on your server - so that you have a log of what happened when the script ran each time. This page gives some info on these options:

http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man1/wget.1.php

If you get a command line working that you like - would be great if you updated the doc on the wiki for this.