[fw-general] Periodic operations through cron with Zend

[Vahe Oughourlian]

Greetings,

 On our previous project, we had several operations (processing of a  
job queue, snapshoting, etc) done through a cronjob.  Being that the  
previous codebase was written in straight php, all the includes and  
such for connecting to the database and whatnot had to be done by  
hand, and we had a few problems with certain assumptions (for  
instance, the inclusion of certain constants) that we had to resolve.

 I'd like to replicate that functionality with Zend, but I'm not  
exactly sure how to go about it.  I'd like that all the inits done in  
the bootstrap be available to this script, but I don't want this  
operation to be a publicly accessible action through a Controller  
action.  Any recommendations?

Thanks,
jedcred