I need a cron to open a certain url every day at 6:30 PM , how do I do this ?

    prepare a file:

    30 18 * * * wget -q http://yoururl.com/test.php

    wget -q retrieves the file but turns off all the output. Otherwise the output would be sent as an e-mail to the user which started that cron job. You can also try saving the downloaded file to /dev/null with -O option, but I haven't tried it and am not sure if it's necessary.
    Then run

    crontab filename

    This should be it. There are other possible cron engines (fcron for example) so check which one is installed. Also wget has to be installed.

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