Cron is creating empty files, how to stop this?

[h0feer]

Hello to everyone,


I'm using Cron from cPanel to complete some automatic tasks to my website , i have setup the cron command like this :

* * * * * wget -q https://www.mydomain.com/cron/WonProductNotification >/dev/null 2>&1

and each time it's completing the task it's creating files like this "WonProductNotification" with empty content, yesterday i couldn't even login to my server using ftp because of these much files that was created by cron , around 50k files ..

Can someone tell me what to do in this case? how to make cron do it's job without creating these files?


I already tried to change the command like this "wget -O link >/dev/null 2>&1 but cron is not working then after i change from -q to O ,

can someone help me please?


Thanks in advance.

 

[vacancy]

Did you try this way?

wget --quiet -O

or

wget -q --spider

 

[h0feer]

Did you try this way?

wget --quiet -O

or

wget -q --spider

Hi, thanks for your reply.

please explain it a little bit clear , you mean try like this :

wget --quiet -O https://www.mydomain.com/cron/WonProductNotification >/dev/null 2>&1

 

[vacancy]

* * * * * wget --quiet -O https://www.mydomain.com/cron/WonProductNotification >/dev/null 2>&1

* * * * * wget -q --spider https://www.mydomain.com/cron/WonProductNotification >/dev/null 2>&1

 

[h0feer]

* * * * * wget --quiet -O https://www.mydomain.com/cron/WonProductNotification >/dev/null 2>&1

* * * * * wget -q --spider https://www.mydomain.com/cron/WonProductNotification >/dev/null 2>&1

Hi,


i just tried both of these examples, none of them works , means when i change them like you said Cron is not doing it's job... any another suggestion please?

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello,

Are you able to execute the script instead of downloading the file? For instance, what exactly is the cron job and the file doing?

Thank you.