Is it possible to log to /var/log/syslog?

[adampatterson]

I increased the frequency of backups on a staging server to test before moving it to production.

The server was being backed up at daily at 00:00 and I have increased that to hourly.

$schedule->command('backup:clean')->hourly()->at(30);
$schedule->command('backup:run')->hourly();

Looking in S3, my backups were showing up maybe 3 min after 00:00, but now that I made this change today's backup was not created. I ran backup:run manually and it ran just fine.

The task * * * * * /usr/bin/php ....

I then checked the /var/log/syslog and it's recording the base schedule cron every min ... schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

Is there a logging option that I can configure for the backups independently from the site?

[erikn69]

Use appendOutputTo()

$schedule->command('backup:clean')->hourly()->appendOutputTo(base_path('storage/backup/log.txt'));
$schedule->command('backup:run')->hourly()->appendOutputTo(base_path('storage/backup/log.txt'));

Or a custom notifications to logger

[adampatterson]

Thanks, @erikn69 I actually wrote a wrapper command that worked as expected. Thanks, for the suggestions!

I was also having issues because ->hourly()->at(30) is invalid it should have been ->hourly(30)