cron job problems

[eluser]thunder uk[/eluser]
If your server has wget on it, you could set up a crontab entry that calls:

wget http://www.mydomain.com/cron/

which would execute your cron controller as expected (ie in a browser-type environment rather than command line script)

Having said that, I agree with the above comment about putting a simple php script together to run from the crontab - using CI to execute a scheduled task would, in most cases I believe, be overkill.

On the other hand, using a "cron" controller in CI could serve additional purposes. You could, for instance, run the cron'd process out-of-schedule by using an img src="/cron/" or via an ajax style request should you ever need to (and assuming your setup doesn't allow for using exec() or backticks etc).

Depends on what you want to accomplish really.