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Hi,
I set up the cron job for email send yesterday. The job is currently set to stop at 9pm and resume running at 7am.

Everything was fine yesterday. Today when the job resumed at 7am I started geting the following error.

ERROR: You need to send a valid key to execute this file. More info at:http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Command-line+Script+Configuration

According to the cron log the job is being run with the same site key as yesterday.

Site key from cron job: &key=XVaaaELCJ8UTTxLD
Settings.php
define( 'CIVICRM_SITE_KEY', 'XVaaaELCJ8UTTxLD' );

Am I missing something?

Thanks

Thanks for the hint.

I finally found it. Seem there might be an conflict in some of the documentation refering to using wget.

First thing I did was confirm that the url worked.

I originally set up the cron job using the post model (http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Command-line+Script+Configuration)

wget -O - -q -t 1  --post-data="name=myuser&pass=mypass&key=mykey" http://mysite/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php

But couldn't get it to work. So I switch to the get model by removing the post data and setting the params

wget -O - -q -t 1  http://mysite/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=myuser&pass=mypass&key=mykey

It seems that the documentation in the POST example should have included single quotes around the url.  When I checked the server log the request get ended at the second &.

Adding single quotes around the url solved the problem.