What's wrong to my cronjob?

[Zenigata]

Hi,
I have to run every hour the maintenance script of phpadsnew, so I've added this cronjob:


50 * * * * wget http://www.zenigata.it/path_to_phpad...aintenance.php > /dev/null

but now the root of my account is plenty of maintenance.php like this:

maintenance.php.1
maintenance.php.2
maintenance.php.3
...

This is an example of the cron output I received via email:

--04:50:03-- http://www.zenigata.it/path_to_phpad...aintenance.php
=> `maintenance.php.63'
Resolving www.zenigata.it... 69.73.175.125
Connecting to www.zenigata.it[69.73.175.125]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]

0K 0.00 B/s

04:50:10 (0.00 B/s) - `maintenance.php.63' saved [0]

Please note phpadsnew manual says:

# if your server supports curl:
0 * * * * curl -s -o /dev/null http://your.server.name.here/phpAdsN...aintenance.php
# if your server supports fetch:
0 * * * * fetch -o /dev/null http://your.server.name.here/phpAdsN...aintenance.php
# if your server supports lynx:
0 * * * * lynx > /dev/null -dump http://your.server.name.here/phpAdsN...aintenance.php
# if your server supports wget:
0 * * * * wget -q -O /dev/null http://your.server.name.here/phpAdsN...aintenance.php

What's wrong in my cron?

Thanks

[jason]

You aren't using the flags that the manual recommends. Note the differences:

Manual: wget -q -O /dev/null url
Your Example: wget url > /dev/null

See the difference?

In the manual example, the -q option means quiet. This turns off the output that is beign returned in the email you're receiving. The second option, "-O /dev/null," is telling wget to save the output to /dev/null instead of to files in your account. /dev/null is a black hole: sending out put there is the same as deleting it, so doing this will put an end to the maintenance.php.* files.

wget was designed to copy entire sites in order to create mirrors, so rather than grabbing content and outputting it to a screen like most utilities do, wget copies files from a remote machine to the local one by default. This is why simply redirecting output to /dev/null (the "> /dev/null" in your command) isn't workig for you.

--Jason