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Hi,
I am a new user to Civicrm and am setting up CiviMail.  I have followed the directions in http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/SystemConfiguration/ to configure the settings and searched the threads for help with this issue, but have been unable to resolve.

The issue I face is with the Cron.  I am using the Cron Job tool in Cpanel to set up the Cron.

The cron I have tried running is */5   *    *    *         *  /usr/local/bin/php /home/divingr/public_html/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=<login_name>&pass=<password>&key=<key>
                                                                 
I have it set to send an email when the cron completes and I get the following message:
Could not open input file: /home/divingr/public_html/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=<login_name>
The permissions on the folders /components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/ and the civimail.cronjob.php file are 777
If I change the permissions on /admistrators to 777, I get an Internal Server Error.

I can run the following from IE7 and the file executes and sends the scheduled mail.
http://www.domain.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=<login_name>&pass=<password>&key=<key>

I have tried removing everything before /public_html and removing everthing before /php with no luck.

I have tried to run the cron with :
http://www.domain.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=<login_name>&pass=<password>&key=<key>

and get the following message
/bin/sh: http://www.domain.org/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=<login_name>: No such file or directory

Thanks in advance!  Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Danny

Thanks, that did the trick.  The Cron is now running and sending the mail.  It's odd, the first time 4 times the cron ran with the wget command, I got a 500 Internal server Error, so I reset the Cron to run 1 time per year and went to bed.  This afternoon, I set the cron to run every 5 minutes and it's running as it should and sending mail to test groups.

Again thanks for your help!