Difficulty setting up Cron on Magento 2

[lilboygh]

I am trying to install extension in M2...at the Readiness check, I am stuck with the cron error, I have done everything but still the same problem. I am running localhost on Ubuntu 16.04 with php7....

cron error am getting

Check Cron Scripts

Cron script readiness check failed. Hide detail

Error from Setup Application Cron Script:
SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory

For additional assistance, see cron scripts help.

below is the cron code i set up...kindly check and help me resolve it. thank you

php -c /etc/php/7.0/cli /opt/lampp/htdocs/magento2/bin/magento cron:run

php -c /etc/php/7.0/cli /opt/lampp/htdocs/magento2/update/cron.php
php -c /etc/php/7.0/cli /opt/lampp/htdocs/magento2/bin/magento setup:cron:run

[brendanb]

Hi,

You have tried to run the code from shell?

cron you for example open the file from the specified directory.

like:

tail /opt/lampp/htdocs/magento2/update/cron.php

brendan