update.php?password files using up inodes

[RobF]

I got notice that our website was using 90% of our allowed inodes which is 300K. I went in to remove any extra files we are not using and discovered that every time the update cron runs (every minute) a new update.php file is being added to the root directory of our hosting account. Right now I am deleting 10,000 at a time which is the limit my FTP client can handle. There are still about 250,000 more to get rid of.

Do you have any idea why the cron is saving a copy of the file every minute?

Here is the cron script:

wget {mywebsite path}/update/update.php?password=****** >/dev/null 2>&1

[Jachym]

Hi,
sorry no clue, Im not a server expert, but Ive never seen this problem before and the CRON definitely should not be doing this, I would ask your provider about the command