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I have just come to understand that the 1.8 version of the civimail.cronjob.php file which is to be called by cron now requires authentication with the inclusion of this single additional line to the file in 1.8.

    CRM_Utils_System::authenticateScript( true );

Currently the command is: cd /home/mydomain/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/; php civimail.cronjob.php > /dev/null 2>&1

I need some help to understand how to include authentication in the crontab that calls civimail.cronjob.php.  Does anyone know how to do this?

many thanks
-dave

I am having some odd trouble with this, with cron. 

If I use this in a URL in a browser then there is no error and the queue is processed: http://<drupal_root>/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=<username>&pass=<pw>

If I use it in cron - with wget- it produces an error '/bin/sh: /usr/bin/wget: Permission denied'  wget http://<drupal_root>/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=<username>&pass=<pw>
If I use the wget syntax for account and password I get the same error. wget --user=<username> --password=<pw> http://<drupal_root>/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php
If I roll back the civimail.cronjob.php to version 1.7, which does not require authentication, then all the above cron commands also produce the same error.  "/bin/sh: /usr/bin/wget: Permission denied"

Does anyone have any ideas?

For my host Site5, a special request must be made to use wget in a crontab.  Once this was allowed I am no longer getting a permission denied message.

However, I notice that the civimail.cronjob.php is not picking up my civicrm.settings.php file, (which I have in drupalroot/sites/www.mysite.org), I have to have this file in the drupalroot/sites/default directory. 

I guess this is part of the reason whey CiviMail does not support Drupal Multisites functionality. 

I am a site5 user too and have a drupal multiside on site 5.
Wget does not work on site5

I solved this issue with a php script, look at: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,793.0.html

The solution on http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,793.0.html works for me on side5 with drupal in multisite setup.
When I read your setup, it is not the same ..

What I did:
1:
I made a folder named ' scripts ' in my domain root (unther the public_html level). It is the same level as the public_ftp and public_html folders.

2:
I made a file named civimailcron.php with the content

<?php
@include("http://www.website.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=drupal_login_name&pass=drupal_login_pass");
?>And I placed this file in the folder 'scripts'.  (file perm 755)

3:
In cron I made the command:  php ~/scripts/civimailcron.php


Expl:
Cron:
the first php is for telling cron a php script is following
~ in cron is domain root (your user domain name in site5) (not server root!!)
cron runs the file ~/scripts/civimail.php

The file civimail.php runs civimail.cronjob.php wich is part of your civicrm installation. When you did a correct civicrm install it is in the drupal map: sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/. Because the script is based on a websitename (http://www.website.org....) it only affect this website and it can be used in multiside environment. A script from server root (/home/mysite/) or domain root wil only affect the main drupal domain (drupal default)

Because civimail.php is unther public level (public_html) the content of this file is safe (drupal username end password)