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We have CiviMail running happily on a few servers. My latest install, however, is causing problems. The wget cron job, which looks like the usual:

wget 'http://DOMAIN.TLD/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=USERNAME&pass=PASSWORD'

... returns 'Error: Could not create directory: ./sites. <p>'

- the u/p is for an active Drupal user with CiviMail permissions
- this is the only copy of CiviMail running on this server
- CiviCRM runs happily with the resource URL http://DOMAIN.TLD/sites/all/modules/civicrm/ and with the local directories pointing at the sites/SUBSITE/files/civicrm/ tree
- the same error results no matter what user it's run as (apache, root ...)
- the same error results if I run the cron php script directly (commenting out the permissions check)

I hadn't, but I just did ... and got the same error.

But it's solved now: we used relative paths for the various CiviCRM directory settings; changing this to absolute paths solved things.

Some investigation reveals that
- the failed directory creation is @ CRM_Utils_File::createDir( $this->templateCompileDir ) in CRM_Core_Config->initialize()
- when called from the cron script, CRM_Utils_File::createDir has the civicrm/bin directory as its cwd, so it seems to have been trying to create a './sites/DOMAIN/' tree there