Comments on: Cron Creating Lots of Files in Home Directory http://www.edmondscommerce.co.uk/linux/cron-creating-lots-of-files-in-home-directory/ Freelance PHP Ecommerce and SEO Developer in the UK Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:49:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Ryan http://www.edmondscommerce.co.uk/linux/cron-creating-lots-of-files-in-home-directory/comment-page-1/#comment-2438 Ryan Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:14:09 +0000 http://www.edmondscommerce.co.uk/blog/?p=1190#comment-2438 I actually was using a -O /dev/null in my cron but I discovered I had over 12000 0 byte files in a folder just outside my public_html folder. I didn't really want to just make another cron to fix it so to avoid this problem I used this cron instead: /usr/bin/php -c /path/to/php.ini /path/to/cron.php I actually was using a -O /dev/null in my cron but I discovered I had over 12000 0 byte files in a folder just outside my public_html folder. I didn’t really want to just make another cron to fix it so to avoid this problem I used this cron instead:

/usr/bin/php -c /path/to/php.ini /path/to/cron.php

]]> By: admin http://www.edmondscommerce.co.uk/linux/cron-creating-lots-of-files-in-home-directory/comment-page-1/#comment-1712 admin Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:00:47 +0000 http://www.edmondscommerce.co.uk/blog/?p=1190#comment-1712 to clean up those files created by wget, try this command: [code] ls | grep -E "\.php\.[0-9]" | xargs rm [/code] to clean up those files created by wget, try this command:

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  1. ls | grep -E "\.php\.[0-9]" | xargs rm

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