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Hi ,
I have tried to set up the cron job as specified by the instructions provided in the documentation, I have also reviewed as many forum posts as possible to gain a greater understanding and see if any of the solutions would fix why the Cron job is not working.
the purpose of this is so that i can schedule mail invitations to the events that i have set up.


The Cron that i have set in my
Joomla 3 installation
CiviCRM 4.4.5.

is in the Cpanel CRON job
/usr/local/bin/php -f /home/user/public_html/dev/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/cron.php?name=xxxxx&pass=xxxx&key=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

the username and password are being pulled from the super user

and the key is coming from the civicrm.settings.php file

the file sends an email to my email as it executes , however the email reads

"Could not open input file: /home/user/public_html/dev/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/cli.php?name=admin"

I am housing my site with in a folder called DEV and i have created a sub domain for it . and the file most defiantly exists and the persmissions are set correctly.

I cannot work out what is going on and or why the cron cant find the input file and send the invitation emails  ?

any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks

p.s The host company are not being very useful.
p.p.s the test mail out and confirmation emails all work correctly .

i think ive got it all asse end up

is this right ?

$ php /home/xxxxx/public_html/dev/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/cli.php -s site -u xxxx -p xxxxxxx -e Job -a process_mailing

i get this error message. in my email

/bin/sh: $: command not found

Hi Hershel,
thanks for your responce , but now i get this error

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.26
Content-type: text/html

<br />
<b>Fatal error</b>:  cli.php can only be run from command line. in <b>/home/xxxxxx/public_html/dev/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/cli.class.php</b> on line <b>83</b><br />

any ideas?

M