I think there are a lot of related questions that could be turned in to umbrella questions. One example: How do I set environment variables for cron/upstart? It could cover ruby, python, and bash for cron and upstart. That way we could have one question/answer/set-of-answers to handle all upstart/cron environment variable questions. This would enable something like redirecting [this][1], [that][2], and [one of mine][3]. I just think it would be cleaner. [1]: http://askubuntu.com/questions/117978/script-doesnt-run-via-crontab-but-works-fine-standalone/117989#117989 [2]: http://askubuntu.com/questions/83549/python-script-wont-write-data-when-ran-from-cron [3]: http://askubuntu.com/questions/105761/how-to-get-a-bundler-enabled-rails-app-running-as-a-service-with-upstart