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Hi,

A security issue with a Joomla install led to various password changes and tightened security, and as a result the cron job to process CiviMail queues stopped working. In theory all that was required was a password change, but it's proved much harder than that.

This was the code that I was using:

PARAMS='-sdefault -uuser -ppassword'

cd /path/to/joomla/webroot/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/;
/usr/bin/nice -n19 /usr/bin/php bin/civimail.cronjob.php $PARAMS

Updating this with a new password now gets rejected on the basis that cli.php requires additional parameters.

So I switched to the following recommended method, including the required params:

CIVI_ROOT=/path/to/joomla/webroot/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm
PHP='nice -n19 /usr/bin/php'
PARAMS='-j -sdefault -uuser -ppassword -e Job -a process_mailing'
cd $CIVI_ROOT;
$PHP bin/cli.php $PARAMS

When I run the script, regardless of which user I use, even superadmin, and a very carefully checked password, results in error:

"Jobs called from cli.php require valid user and password as parameter"

Any suggestions? Thanks as always.

( CiviCRM 4.1.2. ; Joomla 2.5.9 )