Laravel Scheduled Command doesn't run

Question

Using Laravel, I have a cron in Kernel.php that doesn't seem to run when just left to run, if I run php artisan command-name manually, it does work. Below is what I have in Kernel.php , I'm not sure what's stopping it running every 5 minutes, automatically:

$schedule->command('command-name')
->everyFiveMinutes()
->withoutOverlapping()
->runInBackground()
->sendOutputTo(storage_path('logs/command-name.log'));

Answer 1

withoutOverlapping should create a file in storage folder with a name as

schedule_123456....

If the command stopped abruptly this file could remain undeleted. I think you have to delete it manually.

Two things:

1. withoutOverlapping create a lock for 24 hours that avoids to run a new instance of same, while runInBackground let more than one instance to run concurrently. I'ld use only one of the two options..
2. you can pass a parameter to withoutOverlapping to let the check to last less than 24 hours