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    CRON job - calling URL

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      mhank
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      Hi everybody
      I have installed the cron package.
      The cron works - however - I am strulling to have the cron job to call a URL, I have tried with "wget {URL]" but no luck,
      Any goods hints?

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        rcoleman-netgate Netgate @mhank
        last edited by rcoleman-netgate

        @mhank wget is not installed on pfSense.

        You'll either need to side-load it (which will not carry over from backup to restore) or find another tool that can do that task such as curl (/usr/local/bin/curl)

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          mhank @rcoleman-netgate
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          @rcoleman-netgate THANK YOU :)
          That did the trick

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