Answers.Body: <p>you should add directly after cron.php</p>
  
  <pre><code>?name=username&amp;pass=password&amp;key=site-key
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>so it will be in your case:</p>
  
  <pre><code>/usr/local/php53/bin/php-cli /home/ashguild/public_html/home/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/cron.php?name=username&amp;pass=password&amp;key=site-key
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The site-key is generated during install and can be found in civicrm.settings.php.</p>
  
  <p>For your joomla you should be able to find it in
  /home/ashguild/public_html/home/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm.settings.php</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Thank you. I used that formatting and ran the cronjob with Terminal. The error message is gone but the following was returned - Results: [1] 31561
  [2] 31562 and I don't know what this means and I didn't see any evidence that the Scheduled jobs were run. Should the username/password be for Joomla or for Siteground?
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Answers.Text: The crobjob still doesn't seem to be running although I am not getting an error message. When I ran it through Terminal, it just returned - [1] 21217
  [2] 21218 and there was no evidence that the jobs were run. Any idea what those numbers mean?
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Body: <p>I have a Joomla 3.3.3 installation with CiviCRM 4.6.10 and Siteground is my host. I have never set up a cronjob before. I have tried to use Sitegrounds Cronjob tool in cPanel which uses Linux commands which I am also unfamiliar with.</p>
  
  <p>The support staff helped me create a command string - /usr/local/php53/bin/php-cli /home/ashguild/public_html/home/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/cron.php - but I get the following</p>
  
  <p>ERROR: You need to send a valid user name and password to execute this file</p>
  
  <p>I haven't been able to find out how to include the username/password in the string or even if that's really the problem. As you can tell, I am very inexperienced and would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks.</p>
  
Tags: <joomla><cron-job>
Title: How do I set up a cronjob to run scheduled jobs?
ThreadText: # How do I set up a cronjob to run scheduled jobs?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-02-23)
  
  I have a Joomla 3.3.3 installation with CiviCRM 4.6.10 and Siteground is my host. I have never set up a cronjob before. I have tried to use Sitegrounds Cronjob tool in cPanel which uses Linux commands which I am also unfamiliar with.
  
  The support staff helped me create a command string - /usr/local/php53/bin/php-cli /home/ashguild/public\_html/home/administrator/components/com\_civicrm/civicrm/bin/cron.php - but I get the following
  
  ERROR: You need to send a valid user name and password to execute this file
  
  I haven't been able to find out how to include the username/password in the string or even if that's really the problem. As you can tell, I am very inexperienced and would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks.
  
  **Tags:** joomla, cron-job
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-02-23. Score: 2
  
  you should add directly after cron.php
  ?name=username&pass=password&key=site-key
  
  so it will be in your case:
  /usr/local/php53/bin/php-cli /home/ashguild/public_html/home/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/cron.php?name=username&pass=password&key=site-key
  
  The site-key is generated during install and can be found in civicrm.settings.php.
  For your joomla you should be able to find it in
  /home/ashguild/public_html/home/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm.settings.php
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thank you. I used that formatting and ran the cronjob with Terminal. The error message is gone but the following was returned - Results: [1] 31561 [2] 31562 and I don't know what this means and I didn't see any evidence that the Scheduled jobs were run. Should the username/password be for Joomla or for Siteground?  
  > **username_1**: should be the joomla username and password  
  > **username_0**: The crobjob still doesn't seem to be running although I am not getting an error message. When I ran it through Terminal, it just returned - [1] 21217 [2] 21218 and there was no evidence that the jobs were run. Any idea what those numbers mean?  
  
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