Ubuntu – Why is my GitHub scheduled workflow not triggering? (solved)

Update:

Nevermind. It wasn’t working for the last few hours of me trying to get it up and running. But now, suddenly, it’s working.

Action isn’t actually going once every five minutes – more like once every 8 minutes or so.

But in any case: It’s firing, so I know I’ve got the syntax right at least. I must have just attempted this right in a window when GitHub was being weird.

Original:

Having some trouble with a GitHub Actions workflow not executing on a schedule as expected.

Reproduced my issue using a simplified workflow. The workflow below has been comitted to my repository as .github/workflows/schedule-test.yml in my master branch.

I’ve confirmed that the default branch for the repository is master.

I’m expecting this action to run once every five minutes, and it’s not.

I have also tried */10 * * * * and */15 * * * * and those aren’t working either.

Pretty sure this is one of those "you missed something small but super obvious in hindsight" type of things. Any assistance welcome.

name: Schedule Test

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "*/5 * * * *"

jobs:

    test:
        runs-on: ubuntu-latest

        steps:
            - name: Log test
              run: echo "Test"