Laravel scheduler says "No scheduled commands are ready to run."

Question

I've setup a command like this:

protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
{
    $schedule->command('feeds:fetch')->everyFiveMinutes();
}

I've setup a cron job to run php artisan schedule:run

When I run that line on dev's terminal it runs the task OK. On Prod it returns "No scheduled commands are ready to run."

Any way to troubleshoot this?

Answer 1

The fine folks at Larachat (https://larachat.slack.com/) helped me out debug this issue.

The problem was with my crontab. I was setting the crontab to execute the artisan scheduler as follows:

*/1 * * * * php /path/to/artisan schedule:run

(meaning execute every 1st minute of every hour every day.)

When it should be:

* * * * * php /path/to/artisan schedule:run

(meaning execute every minute of every hour every day.)

So, when I manually ran cron on a non-1st minute of every hour, it didn't run at all.