Scheduled Tasks should be able to output to STDOUT - currently forced to /dev/null or file

[kingIZZZY]

Laravel Version

9.29.0

PHP Version

8.1.20

Database Driver & Version

No response

Description

Scheduled Tasks seem to force output to /dev/null unless a local disk file is provided to write output to.

On Docker-based or similar deploy-code / spin-up-instances hosting services like heroku.com or fly.io etc. local files are usually ephemeral and thus local log files are quite useless. These hosts usually offer a live scrolling app output console log that can be monitored, very useful to catch live exceptions or view logged notices/warnings etc.

It would seem very desirable and necessary to have the option to let schedule:run allow laravel Schedule Events' output to proceed on to STDOUT along with all other app output. Suppressing it to /dev/null with no option to allow it through to STDOUT seems like blocking useful options for many deployment environments.

Steps To Reproduce

• Create some Artisan commands or console kernel callback schedules
• Have these tasks/commands produce useful / informative / debugging output, whether laravel Log output, or artisan command ->line() or ->table() or whatnot
• Have these tasks/commands run as a Scheduled Task
• Never see your important output because the output has either been forced down the /dev/null chute, or into a local file that might not be there when you try to log in and read it

Some relevant links

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46586916/how-can-i-redirect-output-to-stdout-with-laravel-scheduler-command
• https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/19616#issuecomment-174355979

[driesvints]

Heya, thanks for submitting this.

This seems like a feature request or an improvement so I'm converting this to a discussion instead. It's best to post these in the discussions section in the future to get support for your idea. After that you may send a PR to the framework. Please only use the laravel/framework issue tracker to report bugs and issues with the framework.

Thanks!