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When I try to run the cron job as suggested in http:// en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/SystemConfiguration :

*/5 * * * * cd $CIVI_ROOT;$PHP  bin/civimail.cronjob.php $PARAMS

I get this error:

Fatal error: Cannot use object of type PEAR_Error as array in /home/USER/DOMAIN/drupal/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/cli.php on line 58

I'm using CiviCRM 3.3.2 and PHP 5.3.4

Is it a misconfiguration from my part?

We ran into this same error today when moving a site from a wget implementation to a php cli cron implementation.

That error can mean that PEAR had trouble parsing the arguments, which is quite possible if you ambiguously read the civimail guide in the manual here: http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/SystemConfiguration

The mistake we made was assuming -sdefault -umailprocess -pseol-lzprm42amv-psyc were the full values to replace. So in our cron setup we had:
-sdefault -username -password
instead of:
-sdefault -uusername -ppassword

Replacing them with that second pattern resolved the error for us.

brian@openmediafoundation.org