Reputation: 11208
Since a week I've set up 2 cronjobs. One is executed every minute, the other once per night. After checking in via FTP I noticed many files were created. These files are named after the cronjob-files. Atm I've cleaned up 6.000 unwanted files but I'm curious what's wrong?
I'm executing the files via wget and they are stored in the root-folder (at the same level where the public_html dir is located).
Upvotes: 1
Views: 60
Reputation: 88697
If you add the -O
option to wget
, and put > /dev/null
to the end of your crontab entries, the problem will go away.
wget
downloads the file you point it to, but -O
writes the file to STDOUT instead of disk, and > /dev/null
blackholes the data.
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 270677
Sounds like wget
is saving its output as it does by default. You can specify /dev/null
as the output file, and it will not save anything.
wget http://example.com/yourfile.php -O /dev/null
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 298364
Try writing the downloaded files to /dev/null
, which basically eats all data shoved into it:
wget -O /dev/null foo.com
wget
is made to download files. If you want, try looking at curl
, which may suit your needs a bit more.
Upvotes: 2