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I am having a lot of difficulty with getting the UpdateMembershipRecord.php going to send out renewal reminders.

I have set up my Membership Types with the renewal reminder enabled.  I updated the UpdateMembershipRecord.php with the appropriate email and saved it as a .php file.  But the reminders are not going out.  I put this in my CPANEL cronjob:
wget http://donations.earthsave.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/UpdateMembershipRecord.php?name=user&pass=password

I had lots of Cron Daemons as a result and I changed it from wget to curl.

The reminders are still not going out.

Meanwhile I discovered that a file is being created every minute, clogging up the whole works.  Can I delete them?  They look like this:
UpdateMembershipRecord.php?name=user.1001  The numbers keep changing sequentially, 1001, 1002, 1003, etc.  I have deleted the cron job to hopefully stop this function.

Here is the error message I was getting:

Subject:      Cron <earthsav@sm4> curl http://donations.earthsave.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/UpdateMembershipRecord.php?name=USER&pass=PASSWORD
From:      "Cron Daemon" <root@sm4.vegsource.com>
Date:      Fri, November 7, 2008 8:16 am
To:      earthsav@sm4.vegsource.com
Priority:      Normal
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  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed

  0    40    0    40    0     0     49      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--    49
  0    40    0    40    0     0     49      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
ERROR: Invalid username and/or password