I am trying to execute a shell_exec('pacmd list-sink-inputs') command via the task scheduler, with no luck I even included the full path to "/usr/bin/pacmd". I is running the user crontab, I added the user to www-data group as I think the php script is spawned by www-data... It works fine and as expected when executed directly using php artisan from the user's terminal. What am I missing or what can I do to fix this?
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Thanks for your reply Snapey... I have tried running cron as www-data, it then appears the cron doesn't run at all. At least with running as user I get log information... just shell_exec returning null, having said that doing a test with something like shell_exec('ls -l') works fine, so it executes some commands.
