The host runs the Scheduled Jobs through a web-based Perl script impersonation of crontab. Because it's web-based, nph-verify.cgi doesn't expect options to be presented, and simply doesn't see them.
The fix, apparently, is simple, yet I'm reluctant to fork a copy of nph-verify.cgi, on the possibility GT has an update somewhere down the pike. All I have to do is make a duplicate of the program with another name, and set it so it doesn't look at the environment it's called from. Force it to think it's running at the command-line (since that is what the host is supposed to be pretending), and it'll take the options.
Whether nph-verify.cgi will run under another name is another question!
Alan Frayer
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