Running jms-job-queue:run without supervisord

[vellmur]

Thanks for this awesome bundle!

Right now I am using it on a shared hosting and I don`t have access to a supervisord. So my question is: "Can I somehow use it with cron tasks?". Will it work if I add to a shared hosting cron task that will active a bundle for a whole day? Cron will start bundle once a day and in a parameter I want to set max time for 24h - "php bin/console jms-job-queue:run --max-runtime=86400".

[dnagy]

It might work, but in case you encounter some kind of error, you might end up without job queue running. Ideally the job queue will work through the day, but sometimes you can have unforseen problems, simple as lock timeout which might cause the queue to stop working. I'd suggest to write a small bash script to see if there's a job queue running and if it's not, then it would start. And make a cron job which starts every minute. I guess this would be the closest thing to supervisord. And I'd still suggest to leave the --max-runtime on the default value.

[Sybio]

As @dnagy said, I added a cron executing a custom bash script every minute.

To prevent duplicate console commands running at the same time, you need to check if jms-job-queue is currently running, and if not, execute once.

Here my snippet :

my_project/job_queue_launch.sh :

#!/bin/sh

if [ -z `pgrep -f -x "/opt/plesk/php/7.1/bin/php bin/console jms-job-queue:run --env=prod"` ]
then
        /opt/plesk/php/7.1/bin/php bin/console jms-job-queue:run --env=prod
fi
exit

Don't forget to give permission :

chmod +x my_project/job_queue_launch.sh

Then add your cron :

crontab -e

* * * * * /path/to/my_project/job_queue_launch.sh

And job is done !

[dnagy]

That's really helpful @Sybio, thanks for sharing!

[schmittjoh]

I would recommend shorter intervals for starting the scheduling command like every minute for example as that reduces the potential offline time significantly.

Otherwise closing this here as there is nothing specific to do.