[Typo3] Direct Mail phpcron invocation from wget

[Mark Gillingham]

Greetings all,

I fear that I'm asking such a simple questions that you can't 
believe it. In Moodle, one does daily cleanup tasks by invoking a 
normal PHP file with a cron scheduler. I'd like to do something 
similar with dmailerd.phpcron.

I don't see errors when I invoke a slightly modified 
dmailerd.phpcron file with a browser or wget. But, invoking the 
script doesn't start the mail engine. All I've changed is the name 
(dmailerd.php) and removed the bang line at the top of the script. 
Why doesn't this work?

I envision invoking the phpcron script like this:

wget -q -O /dev/null 
http://my.domain.com/typo3/ext/direct_mail/mod/dmailerd.php