Running cron from cli in drupal will result in.
PHP Warning: include_once(): Failed opening './includes/bootstrap.inc'
Running cron from cli is useful when your behind external authentication and crontab is not available over http. Because normaly you would put something like:
0 * * * * wget --spider <a href="http://yoursite/cron.php
">http://yoursite/cron.php
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