Cron job failing - Could not open input file

[LoAdEd]

Good morning fellow Dathornians,

I have a php/mysql-based text game that I run on my site. It has a scheduler that refreshes the turn count and updates the database but the cron job will not run it properly.

Cron job:

*/6 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php /home/<user>/public_html/dz/scheduler.php?password=MyPassword

The output I get from the email summary is:
Could not open input file: /home/<user>/public_html/dz/scheduler.php?password=MyPassword

I can run the php file and pass the password parameter to it via my web browser without issue.

Is there possibly a permissions issue of some sort? I tried setting the file to 755 as well.

Any help is most appreciated.

[AndrewT]

You're getting that error because of the query string. You should probably just use curl, wget, lynx, etc. to load the script via HTTP.

[LoAdEd]

Ok. I used wget -r to retrieve it. That seems to be working now. Thanks Andrew!