I am running Piwik 2.3.0 w/ the latest VisitorGenerator plugin install on my CentOS/cPanel server running PHP 5.4.

When I run:

# /usr/local/bin/php /piwik/path/console visitorgenerator:generate-visits --idsite=5 --days=30 --no-logs

the process completes successfully but when I go into Piwik UI, all the visits that were imported have been put onto today instead of spread through the last 30 days.

I have edited the code adding:

echo "USER: " . $user['token_auth'] . "\n";

after the:

$user = $this->getCurrentUser();

on line 29 of VisitsFake.php and it returned

USER: 

So I am assuming that the command-line console system is trying to look-up the user with no success due to you can't login to the console.