Cron Job Laravel 4

Question

I am using the liebig/cron package for cron job in my project,
I followed the installation process of this package properly,
And here is my code

Route::get('/cron/run/cronjob123', function () {
Cron::add('example1', '* * * * *', function() {
                    echo 'success'; die;
                    return null;
                });
$report = Cron::run();
});

Right now i am working in localhost so when i enter the
url myproject/cron/run/cronjob123 It should display success
But directly the execution flow is going to $report
And the the $report has this result,

Array ( [rundate] => 1398489241 [runtime] => -1 )

I am not getting where i am going wrong.

Answer 1

liebig/cron comes with 'preventOverlapping' => true enabled in its config file. This prevents cron job from running again, when it is already running (i.e. previous cycle not finished yet).

To do this cron package create file named cron.lock in app/storage folder. Sometimes due to file permission issues, this file does not get deleted even after successful cron job completion, thus preventing any future cron job runs.

Check the file permissions in app/storage directory. If cron.lock exists delete it and let the cron job run again.

Hope this helps you.