For my particular server (MacOSX 10.3.6), wget has been phased out, and curl put it its place. My crontab now contains:
*/5 * * * * curl -q -O /dev/null http://my dotted IP/admin/cron.php
which has worked well for me. Don't know if this is an issue with RedHat.
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