cronjob php file duplicated continously

Question

I have setup a few cronjobs in cPanel and it seems that everytime it runs the scripts, it writes a file to the root folder of that cPanel account. The problem is that the cronjobs run often and therefor there are hundreds of files created daily.

The files it creates are "phpfile.php.1" and "phpfile.php.2" and so on. And they are all completely empty. Here is a screenshot: http://i.stack.imgur.com/kCctw.png

I have also posted about this issue at the official cPanel forums but they have no idea. So im thinking that it must be a setting either in cPanel or WHM that is causing this. Im running Redhat 32bit e5 and I have full root access. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Are you running these crons using wget? I think that you need to send the answer of the wget command to /dev/null with the -O option.

You need to run the cron with this:

wget http://mysite.com/phpfile.php -O /dev/null

Otherwise the wget will write the result of the command on phpfile.php, phpfile.php.1, etcphpfile.php.2, every time it runs. With /dev/null you're discarding the answer and no file is written.