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As far as I can tell I've done everything by the books but when I attempt to run the script manually the cronjob clearly won't work.

I have created /public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civicrm-wgetrc which contains:
post-data=name=username&pass=password&key=site-key (with username, password and site-key containing the real info)

When I run crontab -l it shows:
WGETRC=/actual/path/to/civicrm-wgtrc
*/5 * * * * linuxuser wget -O - q -t 1 http://sitename.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php

Which is all as listed in the installation guide however if I try to manually run:
linuxuser wget -O - q -t 1 http://sitename.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php
I get:
-bash: linuxuser: command not found
So I try:
wget -O - q -t 1 http://sitename.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php
and get:
ERROR: You need to send a valid user name and password to execute this file

Which makes me question if the cronjob will ever work. Is there a better way to test/varify/fix this?
Thanks