Laravel command not working as cron

Question

I have the below command set up for backing up

db:backup --database=mysql --destination=s3 --destinationPath=date +\test/%Y%m%d%H%M%S.sql--compression=gzip

Code works fine as command

Fails with local.ERROR: exception 'BackupManager\\ShellProcessing\\ShellProcessFailed' with message 'sh: mysqldump: command not found when the same is run from scheduler.

Any suggestions.

Answer 1

Yep figured out the details.

shell path was not initialised when running as cron

Solution was to create as shell script and call it from cron with bash_profile initiated before cron

crontab

* * * * * bash /path/cron.sh

cron.sh

. .bash_profile
<cron command>