It creates files with 0 Bytes, with the same name as the php being called in the task.
I have a task that runs every minute, my folder /root is crowded.
My task:
* * * * * /usr/bin/wget -q https://domain/script.php
How to stop creating these files?
Why?
Because this is what wget command is doing and because your cron job call wget at every minute. From man wget:
GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the Web.
It creates files with 0 bytes because probably script.php does not return nothing in non-interactive mode.
How to stop creating these files?
Run in terminal next command to open the crontab file:
crontab -e
and delete or comment the line:
* * * * * /usr/bin/wget -q https://domain/script.php
Save the crontab file and close it.
Or just simple use:
crontab -r
to remove your crontab file.
If you want to make the cron job only to access https://domain/script.php every minute, then use curl, ping or maybe lynx. For example:
* * * * * curl https://domain/script.php
More about: http://v1.corenominal.org/howto-setup-a-crontab-file/
