Cron creating a blank file

I have a php script running under a cron job like so:

wget http://www.mysite.com/script.php

Everytime the cron runs, I get a script.php.{number} file in my root directory. The number starts at blank and is increased by 1 everytime the cron runs. The file is completely blank.

My script isn't returning any errors when run from my browser.

Could someone please explain what's going on here?

Thanks.

Are you triggering the script via wget or does cron call wget?

Anyway, my guess is that your user permissions are wrong, and the apache / webserver user (usually 'nobody') can't write to the root directory.

Try running the script from a terminal, and see what error you get.

--Simon

If I trigger the script in a terminal using wget (any PHP script on my site), then the "ghost" file appears. I'm giong to look into a different way to use wget.

The --delete-after option is deleting he file after its done running the script. Apparently it was creating the file as part of the cache.