Question

Currently, I have one php function which is running with cron. It’s the function to check the timestamp and close the topic. To check the timestamp and make live update, I have to use cron. I run cron with this command

wget -q http://www.example.com/program/timecheck

Everything seems working perfectly, so I didn’t check my server for quite long. But today, I checked and found out that there are more than 500,000 of files called timecheck are created at root directory.

I checked through the code and it’s sure that there’s no code for creating the file.

What I would like to know is, is it because of the wget -q command ? If that’s what command should i use to execute the url ?

Thanks for your help.

With Regards,

Answer 1

Assuming this is a Linux-like OS,

wget -O /dev/null -q http://www.example.com/program/timecheck

The file is the output from wget. This option (-O) tells it to write the output to /dev/null, thus discarding it.