Cron job and wp-mail question – file created on root

I had the same problem and solved it by redirecting stderr as well as stdout to /dev/null:

wget https://whogivesacrap.net/wp-mail.php > /dev/null 2>&1

If wp-mail.php finds no email to post it says so using the die function, which is printed to stderr.

I tried that and it is still printing out. Anyway I can comment out the die functions or use something different so it doesn’t print anything out?

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I’m having this same problem. I’ve tried both:

wget https://adambier.com/wp-mail.php > /dev/null

and

wget https://adambier.com/wp-mail.php > /dev/null 2>&1

and I still get crap in my root dir every time.

cool_blade?

Anyone??

I figured it out…

change line 20 in wp-mail.php to:
if (0 == $count) die;

You can also do it without hacking wp-mail.php:


wget -O /dev/null https://yoursiteetc/wp-mail.php


(normally, wget outputs to a file, now it outputs to the unix drain)

Thanks, lyklev! Your information has greatly helped me to set up a cron job that works!