Please help me write a PHP script that publishes Twitter updates at pre-specified times. [more inside]
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane on Jul 29, 2009 - 9 answers

Cron Jobs - separate processes? [more inside]
posted by uncle harold on Jul 9, 2008 - 5 answers

My site's cron tasks eat up a lot of bandwidth. Can I change the paths from http to local? Or can I move the tasks to my home server? [more inside]
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane on Apr 5, 2008 - 18 answers

How do I make a command-line script run at startup/login in OSX? [more inside]
posted by tylermoody on Aug 3, 2007 - 9 answers

Paging Linux geeks -- please teach me the inner mysteries of cron and scripting. Simple questions follow. [more inside]
posted by zek on Feb 21, 2007 - 11 answers

How can I make backups of a MySQL database (via mysqldump) and preserve Unicode characters (such as em dashes)? [more inside]
posted by cmyers on Aug 28, 2006 - 8 answers