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CRON job - calling URL

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    mhank
    last edited by Jul 25, 2022, 12:10 AM

    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 Jul 25, 2022, 12:27 AM Jul 25, 2022, 12:26 AM

      @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)

      Ryan
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        mhank @rcoleman-netgate
        last edited by Jul 25, 2022, 1:04 AM

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

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