Laravel not running jobs

Question

I am using laravel 5.2 and I have my jobs set up as:

<?php

namespace App\Console;

use Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel as ConsoleKernel;

class Kernel extends ConsoleKernel
{
    /**
     * The Artisan commands provided by your application.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $commands = [
        \App\Console\Commands\FetchTweets::class,
        \App\Console\Commands\FetchTweetMentions::class,
        \App\Console\Commands\FetchTweetListsAddedToo::class,
        \App\Console\Commands\LogRotater::class,
        \App\Console\Commands\FetchReadMes::class,
        \App\Console\Commands\FetchEveMarketPrices::class,
        \App\Console\Commands\FetchEveRegions::class,
        \App\Console\Commands\FetchEveMarketGroupInformation::class,
        \App\Console\Commands\FetchEveMarketTypes::class,
        \App\Console\Commands\FetchEveOnlineRegionTypeHistoryInformation::class,
        \App\Console\Commands\CleanEveTables::class,
        \App\Console\Commands\PublishTweets::class,
        \App\Console\Commands\FetchTwitterBlocks::class,
        \App\Console\Commands\FetchTwitterFollowers::class
    ];

    /**
     * Define the application's command schedule.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule  $schedule
     * @return void
     */
    protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
    {
        // ...

        $schedule->command('log_rotater')
            ->everyThirtyMinutes()
            ->withoutOverlapping()
            ->appendOutputTo('storage/logs/log_rotation.log');
    }
}

I have commented out the other jobs because I feel if I fix one it will fix them all or I'll have a way to fix them all. Essentially this job never runs.

Ever.

How do I know this? The log files its suppose to rotate grow in size to well over a few gigs when they are never suppose to be bigger then a meg. I use to have this set to daily, but now I changed it to every half hour.

It still doesn't run.

I can run it manually by doing php artisan log_rotator and there are no errors, it runs, it rotates the logs life is grand.

But it doesn't seem to want to run when scheduled.

Ideas?

Have you created the actual cronjob to run the scheduler?

# m h  dom mon dow   command
* * * * * php ~/personal_site/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

Does the command even work?

This is an example of one of the outputs:

xxx@ubuntu:~$ php ~/personal_site/artisan schedule:run
Running scheduled command: (touch /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-1b9fbd28988b6ce27513da6dcf3d00eec059484c; '/usr/bin/php7.0' 'artisan' fetch_tweets; rm /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-1b9fbd28988b6ce27513da6dcf3d00eec059484c) >> 'storage/logs/tweets.log' 2>&1 &

So .... yes yes it does.

Help

Update two

The following should pretty much tell you anything you need to know.

xxx@ubuntu:~$ php /home/xxx/personal_site/artisan schedule:run >> /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/cron.log 2>&1
xxx@ubuntu:~$ cd personal_site/storage/
xxx@ubuntu:~/personal_site/storage$ cat cron.log 
Running scheduled command: (touch /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-1b9fbd28988b6ce27513da6dcf3d00eec059484c; '/usr/bin/php7.0' 'artisan' fetch_tweets; rm /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-1b9fbd28988b6ce27513da6dcf3d00eec059484c) >> 'storage/logs/tweets.log' 2>&1 &
Running scheduled command: (touch /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-8f666afb45a162c3e7fcdd31c3b7334b7321f169; '/usr/bin/php7.0' 'artisan' fetch_twitter_blocks; rm /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-8f666afb45a162c3e7fcdd31c3b7334b7321f169) >> 'storage/logs/tweet_block.log' 2>&1 &
Running scheduled command: (touch /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-00cca655481aaf25de2c659589a2eb94feaf5775; '/usr/bin/php7.0' 'artisan' fetch_twitter_followers; rm /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-00cca655481aaf25de2c659589a2eb94feaf5775) >> 'storage/logs/twitter_followers.log' 2>&1 &
Running scheduled command: (touch /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-ee75cb261c4f273c31e1c7ce526ee8ad0b810907; '/usr/bin/php7.0' 'artisan' fetch_tweet_mentions; rm /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-ee75cb261c4f273c31e1c7ce526ee8ad0b810907) >> 'storage/logs/tweet_mentions.log' 2>&1 &
Running scheduled command: (touch /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-3b5a4c06df2d042fff061daba42e20e7e4ff43fc; '/usr/bin/php7.0' 'artisan' fetch_tweet_lists_added_too; rm /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-3b5a4c06df2d042fff061daba42e20e7e4ff43fc) >> 'storage/logs/tweet_list.log' 2>&1 &
Running scheduled command: (touch /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-1b9fbd28988b6ce27513da6dcf3d00eec059484c; '/usr/bin/php7.0' 'artisan' fetch_tweets; rm /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-1b9fbd28988b6ce27513da6dcf3d00eec059484c) >> 'storage/logs/tweets.log' 2>&1 &
Running scheduled command: (touch /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-8f666afb45a162c3e7fcdd31c3b7334b7321f169; '/usr/bin/php7.0' 'artisan' fetch_twitter_blocks; rm /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-8f666afb45a162c3e7fcdd31c3b7334b7321f169) >> 'storage/logs/tweet_block.log' 2>&1 &
Running scheduled command: (touch /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-00cca655481aaf25de2c659589a2eb94feaf5775; '/usr/bin/php7.0' 'artisan' fetch_twitter_followers; rm /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-00cca655481aaf25de2c659589a2eb94feaf5775) >> 'storage/logs/twitter_followers.log' 2>&1 &
Running scheduled command: (touch /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-ee75cb261c4f273c31e1c7ce526ee8ad0b810907; '/usr/bin/php7.0' 'artisan' fetch_tweet_mentions; rm /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-ee75cb261c4f273c31e1c7ce526ee8ad0b810907) >> 'storage/logs/tweet_mentions.log' 2>&1 &
Running scheduled command: (touch /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-3b5a4c06df2d042fff061daba42e20e7e4ff43fc; '/usr/bin/php7.0' 'artisan' fetch_tweet_lists_added_too; rm /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-3b5a4c06df2d042fff061daba42e20e7e4ff43fc) >> 'storage/logs/tweet_list.log' 2>&1 &
Running scheduled command: (touch /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-1357d5ceb1399278a39d91725089a0df39036ecc; '/usr/bin/php7.0' 'artisan' publish_tweets; rm /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-1357d5ceb1399278a39d91725089a0df39036ecc) >> 'storage/logs/sent_tweets.log' 2>&1 &
Running scheduled command: (touch /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-1b9fbd28988b6ce27513da6dcf3d00eec059484c; '/usr/bin/php7.0' 'artisan' fetch_tweets; rm /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-1b9fbd28988b6ce27513da6dcf3d00eec059484c) >> 'storage/logs/tweets.log' 2>&1 &
Running scheduled command: (touch /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-8f666afb45a162c3e7fcdd31c3b7334b7321f169; '/usr/bin/php7.0' 'artisan' fetch_twitter_blocks; rm /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-8f666afb45a162c3e7fcdd31c3b7334b7321f169) >> 'storage/logs/tweet_block.log' 2>&1 &
Running scheduled command: (touch /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-00cca655481aaf25de2c659589a2eb94feaf5775; '/usr/bin/php7.0' 'artisan' fetch_twitter_followers; rm /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-00cca655481aaf25de2c659589a2eb94feaf5775) >> 'storage/logs/twitter_followers.log' 2>&1 &
Running scheduled command: (touch /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-ee75cb261c4f273c31e1c7ce526ee8ad0b810907; '/usr/bin/php7.0' 'artisan' fetch_tweet_mentions; rm /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-ee75cb261c4f273c31e1c7ce526ee8ad0b810907) >> 'storage/logs/tweet_mentions.log' 2>&1 &
Running scheduled command: (touch /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-3b5a4c06df2d042fff061daba42e20e7e4ff43fc; '/usr/bin/php7.0' 'artisan' fetch_tweet_lists_added_too; rm /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-3b5a4c06df2d042fff061daba42e20e7e4ff43fc) >> 'storage/logs/tweet_list.log' 2>&1 &
Running scheduled command: (touch /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-1357d5ceb1399278a39d91725089a0df39036ecc; '/usr/bin/php7.0' 'artisan' publish_tweets; rm /home/xxx/personal_site/storage/framework/schedule-1357d5ceb1399278a39d91725089a0df39036ecc) >> 'storage/logs/sent_tweets.log' 2>&1 &

Answer 1

Looking at your shedule method I think this is not correct:

$schedule->command('log_rotater')
   .....

You mention log_rotater here; but how does you $signature look like in \App\Console\Commands\LogRotater::class It's probably something like log:rotate

The argument of the command() should be an artisan command; so that defined in $signature in \App\Console\Commands\LogRotater::class

You mention you're scheduler runs; but it only runs the 'FetchTweets' task; nothing else.

Answer 2

I think @tkausl is on the right track: the "~" at the beginning of your command likely does not point to the root folder you expect...

I'd first remove the stdout/stderr redirection, maybe mail to yourself by adding this at the top of your cron file:

MAILTO=me@company.com
MAILFROM=server@company.com

That should allow you to see any error message the cron job outputs...

My guess, as I said, is your cron job runs as a different user than you (maybe as root?) and "~/personal_site/artisan" just doesn't exist in this context...

Alternatively, you can also try and use an absolute path straight away and see if that's the issue...

Hope this helps!