Strange cron problem

[thernes]

I have a server where I have set up a couple of accounts. Every time a cron script is run, it creates an empty file of the cron-file in the sites root folder (/home/***/)

Example

Let say that I run the following cron command:
*/15 * * * * wget http://www.mysite.com/cronjobs/cleanupscript.php > /dev/null 2>&1

Every time this runs, a new, empty file, shows up in the site root, so now the site root looks like this;

cleanupscript.php
cleanupscript.php.1
cleanupscript.php.2
cleanupscript.php.3
cleanupscript.php.4
cleanupscript.php.5
etc.

Anybody seen this before and know what could be causing this to happen? The cron commands executes just fine, but I really don't want a bunch of empty files in all the root folders.

thanks,

T

[linux-image]

what you are doing is downloading the cleanupscript.php from the said URL through wget. this is the reason why the files are populated inside the folder. Also, I do not think the real purpose of the script by the name is done using this wget command. If you want to execute the script at http://www.mysite.com/cronjobs/cleanupscript.php ; then you might want to first find the path to php with the command :

which php

from inside the server. This could be /usr/local/bin/php ; and then you can set the cron as

/usr/local/bin/php /home/USERNAME/public_html/cronjobs/cleanupscript.php

and there will be no further downloads and your script should execute fine. You may also use lynx; but the method above is teh best considering low apache usage as well.