The crontab in ubuntu was creating muntiple files with same name as the file in execution. I was running the file fr_bom.php in cron tab and it created multiple file like this fr_bom.php.409 fr_bom.php.410 fr_bom.php.411 I was wondering how do delete them suddenly it flashed to me that i should use wild card I used rm fr_bom.php.* [...]