Holy Sweet Mother of Cron Job Errors

Assuming you've given the run-periodic tasks 755 permissions, here's what mine looks like.

*/30 * * * * cd /home/username/mydomain.com/cgi-bin/mt; ./tools/run-periodic-tasks>/dev/null 2>&1

There's a space between the semi-colon and the period.

I too use DreamHost, but had problems with the cron jobs in the web panel. I prefer to have a text file in the root folder and use the command line to set and reset the cron jobs.

There's a very good article on crontab in the DreamHost wiki. http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Crontab

I had similar path errors, also on Dreamhost, but have it working now. According to my install notes, all I've done is run the cron job thus:

cd /home/[user]/[path-to-mt]; perl ./tools/run-periodic-tasks > /dev/null

I get occasional emails from cron when something messes up, but it's been surprisingly stable for a few weeks now, running Action Streams fetches and publish queue stuff (I don't fully understand the benefits and limitations of the publish queue, so I just set the 'high-priority background publishing' profile).

Now if only I could get FastCGI stable on Dreamhost... :-)

Oh joy. Not only did I post a dupe, but Markdown formatting isn't working either. Heck, not even line breaks are working.