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wordpress e-mail post cron job question

[atpservices]

Hi, New to this forum. Great Info here.

I am setting up a wordpress blog on my site.
Got everything working ok.

One feature is you can post to your blog
by sending an e-mail to a secret address
that is only known by yours truely.

I had to setup a cron job to go out an look
for pending e-mails to be posted to the blog.
That works great.

The only problem is that each time the cron job
runs it leaves a small file out on the root of
my server.

So I just noticed this 2 days ago,and had to delete
over 10 thousand of these wp-mail.php 10xx files.

The question is what do I do to prevent this.
Create another cron job that deletes these files?

Thanks for any suggestions.

[2by4]

no need to create another cron job, just have the last step of the script run by cron deleting that little file, whatever it's called.

;rm /folder/path/wp-mail.php

or whatever the filename you want to remove is called, should just take a single line of code. The ; makes it so it's a new statement, you can just tack that on the cron script, that's pretty much all you need to do assuming it's a bash/sh script.

If it's not, you'd have to use the php equivalent for deleting the file.