Hi,
In the end to get the cron job to spider the site I had to enter the following (all on one line)
/usr/bin/curl
http://www.animals-in-distress.net/s...min/spider.php http://www.animals-in-distress.net/s...n/cronlist.txt >> spider.log
I've just received an email telling me the cron had run with no error message, I'll try it again in a few days with a couple of extra URL's in the cronlist to see if they are picked up.