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gibsonoliver

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Cron job problem
January 25, 2012, 01:42:36 am
Hi All

We are helping with a site which is running on Druapl 6.22 and CiviCRM 3.4.8 (latest versions at this time).
When they create a scheduled Mailing the Cron Job isn't working. As far as we can see all settings are correct.

Username, pword, site key, civcrm root in settings file all correct.
If you try and run the job manually in a browser the following message is displayed.
"ERROR: You need to send a valid user name and password to execute this file"

The same message is displayed for both;
http://example.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php/name=name&pass=pass&key=key
http://example.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/EmailProcessor.php/name=name&pass=pass&key=key

Has anyone got ideas as to what could be causing this?
Any help really appreciated.

Olly
Oliver Gibson, Northbridge Digital

Rajesh

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Re: Cron job problem
January 25, 2012, 02:21:43 am
Hi Olly

You need a query string(?) in the Url instead of '/', to pass the data to the script.

Please try

http://example.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=name&pass=pass&key=key
http://example.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/EmailProcessor.php?name=name&pass=pass&key=key
« Last Edit: January 25, 2012, 02:27:09 am by Rajesh »

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Re: Cron job problem
January 25, 2012, 03:14:05 am
Hi Rajesh

Sorry that was a typing error in my post. The same error still appears

Olly
Oliver Gibson, Northbridge Digital

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Re: Cron job problem
January 25, 2012, 07:24:01 am

make sure your name and pass are simple (alphabets and numerals only) and dont have any punctuation characters (especially &)

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Re: Cron job problem
January 25, 2012, 02:14:30 pm
After upgrading Civicrm my mailjob isn't working anymore. I've created a logfile and there I get the message "ERROR: Invalid username and/or password".

I run Civicrm 3.4.7 with Joomla 1.5.23 and PHP 5.2.17.

Obviously I need to create a new user. I can create a user in Joomla, but then I have to associate that user with a Civicrm contact. At least that's what I read in the wiki. But how can I do that?
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