Scheduler in Laravel 5 with crontab in my local system does not work

Question

When I run 'php artisan schedule:run' in terminal, it's doing what is exptected, but when I configure my crontab to execute it automatically it has no effect. My code in Kernel.php is:

$schedule->call(function () {
            $example=Example::orderBy('updated_at', 'asc')->limit(1)->first();
            $example->touch();
        })->everyMinute();

and in crontab -e I put

* * * * * php /path/to/laravel/project schedule:run 1>> /dev/null 2>&1

I tried executing other commands in the crontab file and the other commands were working. So I suppose that could be something with php but I don't have any output to know whats the problem.

Any idea on how to figure out the problem?

To make it work: * * * * * php /path/to/laravel/project/artisan schedule:run 1>> /dev/null 2>&1 — sebasparola
– sebasparola, Commented Oct 11, 2015 at 21:28

Jirennor · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-11 21:09:42Z

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I think you path is not complete. You must include Artisan in your path.

* * * * * php /path/to/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

So for example:

* * * * * php /var/www/html/laravel_project/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

See Laravel documentation for more information: Task Schedule

Edit

If you would like to see the output of your Cronjob then you must remove the following:

>> /dev/null 2>&1

edited Oct 11, 2015 at 21:09

answered Oct 11, 2015 at 20:59

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sebasparola Over a year ago

Thanks you were right, I just added artisan and now is working

Farveaz · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-23 10:54:51Z

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Sometimes the issue is that Cron does not know where PHP is. In such cases, you have to define the path to your local php installation. In my machine,

crontab -e

has the entry

* * * * * /usr/local/bin/php /home/younus/TruckJee/Code/Panel/artisan schedule:run

It worked perfectly as planned. Also, to check if your crobjobs are running, use

cat /var/log/syslog

It should show if your cronjob is actually running. (ie)

May 23 16:21:01 farveaz cron[1105]: (root) RELOAD (crontabs/root)
May 23 16:21:01 farveaz CRON[6812]: (younus) CMD (/usr/local/bin/php /home/younus/TruckJee/Code/Panel/artisan schedule:run)
May 23 16:21:01 farveaz CRON[6811]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)

answered May 23, 2016 at 10:54

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