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Thought this might help someone. I don't have command line access with my host, so I needed a different way to run the cron. Finally settled on putting together this script in a php file and running it from the cron in my control panel. The opening line I used is specific to my server, but yours will be something similar:

#!/usr/local/bin/php.cli
<?php

// create a new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init();

// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://<site-and-civicrm-path>/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=<name>&pass=<pass>&key=<key>");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

// grab URL and pass it to the browser
curl_exec($ch);

// close cURL resource, and free up system resources

curl_close($ch);
?>

Hope this helps someone.

Phil