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After going through a number of ways to execute a cron job in CakePHP ..

The option below seemed to be the simplest and easiest to execute.
However this would work only on a linux / unix machine and requires lynx be installed in your machine.

lynx –dump http://www.your_domain.com/controller/action/ >/dev/null

So for a cron job:

*/5 * * * * lynx –dump http://www.your_domain.com/controller/action/ > /dev/null

Useful links related to Lynx:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)

http://tips.webdesign10.com/general/lynx-browser