title: commands not executing with laravel cron jobs
body: <p>i am hosting my laravel application with namecheap, i have also followed all the instructions here <a href="https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9453/29/how-to-run-scripts-via-cron-jobs" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9453/29/how-to-run-scripts-via-cron-jobs</a> . however after setting my cron job in the cron job tab of cpanel, i get notifications in my email but the artisan command does'nt seem to be executed as my database remains the same. i tried to echo out a value in the artisan command's handle method for testing purposes but then nothing gets output and i still get notifications in my email like so => 'Running scheduled command: '/opt/alt/php70/usr/bin/php' 'artisan' deactivate:ads > '/home/agrodqkc/applications/agroexpresslink/app/console/log.txt' 2>&amp;1 &amp;'</p>
  
  <p>This is my cron command for every minute => /usr/local/bin/php /home/agrodqkc/applications/agroexpresslink/artisan schedule:run</p>
  
  <p>my kernel.php file :</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  
  namespace mazee\Console;
  
  use Illuminate\Console\Command;
  use Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule;
  use Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel as ConsoleKernel;
  
  class Kernel extends ConsoleKernel
  {
  /**
   * The Artisan commands provided by your application.
   *
   * @var array
   */
  protected $commands = [
      // Commands\Inspire::class,
        Commands\maz::class,
        Commands\deactivateads::class,
  ];
  
  /**
   * Define the application's command schedule.
   *
   * @param  \Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule  $schedule
   * @return void
   */
  protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
  {
      // $schedule-&gt;command('inspire')
      //          -&gt;hourly();
  
      //$schedule-&gt;command('maz:do')-&gt;everyMinute()-&gt;sendOutputTo(base_path().'/app/console/log.txt')-&gt;emailOutputTo('ewomaukah@yahoo.com');;
      $schedule-&gt;command('deactivate:ads')-&gt;everyMinute()-&gt;sendOutputTo( base_path().'/app/console/log.txt');
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>}</p>