Cron is creating empty files, how to stop this?

h0feer

• March 08, 2017 06:40

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.

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  vacancy

  • March 08, 2017 11:48

  Did you try this way?
  wget --quiet -O
  or
  wget -q --spider
  

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  h0feer

  • March 08, 2017 11:57

  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
  

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  vacancy

  • March 08, 2017 12:08

  
  * * * * * 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
  

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  h0feer

  • March 08, 2017 14:17

  
  * * * * * 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?

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  cPanelMichael

  • March 08, 2017 16:18

  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.

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