Laravel Cron is running twice

Question

I am using laravel to run my cron.The problem is it that all the commands are running twice. When i add ps -A in my terminal it shows two enteries.

  964 ?        00:04:56 cron
25010 ?        00:00:00 cron

I have this entry in laravel :

* * * * * php /var/www/war-circle-web/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

What could be the problem?

Take a look at https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/scheduling#preventing-task-overlaps. If it runs every minute is very likely to be overlapping. — Nil Llisterri, Mar 02 '17 at 08:12
Is it possible that you have two users who have this cronjob? — Jerodev, Mar 02 '17 at 08:23

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 04 '20 at 11:42

First you need to check for what users cron runs

sudo ls /var/spool/cron/crontabs

you'll see few names or one - it depends

user_name_1 user_name_2

Then you have options for: 1) update your own cron

crontab -e

2) remove you cron

crontab -r -u user_name

3) remove cron for another user

sudo crontab -r -u user_name

4) update cron for specific user_name

sudo crontab -e -u user_name

Laravel Cron is running twice

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