如何在Linux AMI上为Laravel应用程序安排年度cron作业？

Question

I'm trying to set up a cron job for the 1st of January on my AWS EC2 instance for ec2-user. When I do crontab -u ec2-user -l, it shows the following output:

* * * * * usr/bin/php /var/www/html/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

But even though the following was set up in Kernel.php, the job never fired:

protected $commands = [
    // Commands\Inspire::class,
    Commands\TestYearlyJob::class,
];

protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
{
    $schedule->command('table:test-yearly-job')->cron('0 0 1 1 *')
       ->timezone('Europe/London')
       ->appendOutputTo('../taskscheduler.log');
}

The command itself runs from Artisan (I've double checked), so its logic is fine.

I'm wondering if there is a way to do it with the ->yearly()->at() scheduling option? Or perhaps with a closure truth test? But I'm not sure what to put in there for a when() statement. Please help.

Answer 1

Reference

I noticed cron function has 6 stars. Try ->cron('0 0 1 1 * *'). Also yearly has the same expression, so you can try either this command(..)->yearly()->timezone(..)

Update

The issue is missing / in usr/bin/php. /usr/bin/php fixed the issue