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I've used cPanel without problems to set up scheduled posts and recently moved my hosting to Dreamhost. Once my Movable Type installation was set up, I had to do a quick course on using the shell access to enable crontab jobs.

Sixaparts instructions have an error that has frustrated me for days, and I've searched the internet for a solution to solve this problem.

Instead of this:

0,15,30,45 * * * * cd /path/to/mt/; ./tools/run-periodic-tasks

Which will produce the following error:

/bin/sh: line 1: /home/username/path/to/mt/: is a directory

You need to type this, without the trailing slash after mt:

0,15,30,45 * * * * cd /path/to/mt; ./tools/run-periodic-tasks

This is the same command as previous, only shorthand:

*/15 * * * * cd /path/to/mt; ./tools/run-periodic-tasks

Be sure to set the permissions for run-periodic-tasks to 755.

My thanks to the Dreamhosters Forum for help with this problem.

Other useful links include Crontab on Dreamhost, and Installing Movable Type on Dreamhost.