title: Running CodeIgniter cron on localhost
body: <p>I'm trying to get a cron job to run every 5 min on my localhost. Using the Cronnix app I entered the following command</p>
  
  <pre><code>0,5 * * * * root curl http://localhost:8888/site/  &gt; /dev/null
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The script runs fine when I visit <a href="http://localhost:8888/site/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://localhost:8888/site/</a> in my browser. I've read some stuff about getting CI to run on Cron, using wget and various other options but none make a lot of sense.</p>
  
  <p>In another SO post I found the following command</p>
  
  <pre><code>wget -O - -q -t 1 http://www.example.com/cron/run
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What is the "-O - -q -t 1" syntax exactly?</p>
  
  <p>Are there other options?</p>