What are *.php.1 - *.php.2 files? -

can't find on google this.

so, have been playing crons yesterday. have created cron file active , called notidy.php.

today, found copy of file outside of www directory. also, there 15 files named notify.php.1, notify.php.2, notify.php.3 etc. appear empty.

what they? safe remove?

you can remove these files. these files created every time cron job runs, can set auto-delete file after cron job runs.

if using wget:

method 1

to avoid creating such files, should add --delete-after after wget when creating cron job.

example

0 * * * * wget --delete-after -q http://www.example.com/my-cron.php

method 2

example:

0 * * * * wget -q -o /dev/null http://your.server/script.php

Macro