Cronjob Homestead not working

Question

I've created a command to send automatic emails. When I do homestead ssh and I run php artisan emails.send an email arrives in my mailtrap.io account.

I've added this code to the kernel.php

$schedule->command('emails:send')->everyFiveMinutes();

I've put it at a 5 minute interval, just to make it easier to quickly test it. I've ssh'd into Homestead and performed

php /home/vagrant/Code/soeptime/artisan schedule:run 1>> /dev/null    2>&1

then I exit homestead and I did homestead provision

However, there is nothing in the logs and I still haven't received an email, homestead is now running for more then 15 minutes.

Answer 1

You need to manually edit crontab:

First:

 crontab -e

and then add

* * * * * php /home/vagrant/Code/soeptime/artisan schedule:run

Answer 2

From the Laravel docs:

Laravel provides a convenient way to schedule Cron jobs by scheduling a single schedule:run Artisan command to be run every minute. The schedule:run command will examine the job schedule defined in your App\Console\Kernel class to determine which jobs should be run.

If you would like the schedule:run command to be run for a Homestead site, you may set the schedule option to true when defining the site:

sites:
   - map: homestead.test
     to: /home/vagrant/code/Laravel/public
     schedule: true 

The Cron job for the site will be defined in the /etc/cron.d folder of the virtual machine.