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Hi,

I'm trying to get a cron job set up so that CiviMail processes sending out mailing list e-mails, but am getting the following e-mail report back after the cron job has run:

/bin/sh: /usr/bin/wget: Permission denied

I'm running CiviCRM 2.2 on Drupal. The cron job was set up via CPanel.

This is the line I used for the cron job:

wget 'http://websiteaddress.co.uk/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=username&pass=password&key=key'

I also changed to permissions of civimail.cronjob.php to 755, but this didn't appear to make a difference.

Any ideas?

Okay, I asked my hosting provider, who said that wget is disabled because of the possibility of security compromises etc and couldn't understand why wget was being used to run the script.

As an alternative, it was suggested that I should use a 'php' or 'php -q' command instead of wget, like so:

php -q 'http://websiteaddress.co.uk/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=username&pass=password&key=key'
But this results in the following result in the e-mailed cron job report:
No input file specified.
The mail queue isn't processed as a result of this, however if I put the http://websiteaddress.co.uk/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=username&pass=password&key=key address in my browser, it processes the mail queue.

My hosting provider said that the php or php -q commands should work as standard for processing scripts, but suggested that I ask back here about what format command would be required in this instance.