How to keep Laravel Queue system running on server

Question

I recently setup a Laravel Queue system. The basics are a cronjob calls a command which adds jobs to a queue and calls a second command which sends an email.

The sy

Answer 1

For CentOS7

yum install supervisor

Then create a file in /etc/supervisord.d/filename.ini With content

[program:laravel-worker]
command=/usr/bin/php /home/appuser/public_html/artisan queue:listen
process_name=%(program_name)s_%(process_num)02d
numprocs=5
priority=999
autostart=true
autorestart=true
startsecs=1
startretries=3
user=appuser
redirect_stderr=true
stdout_logfile=/path/logpath/artisan.log

Then start the supervisord service using

systemctl restart supervisord

Enable supervisord service to run on boot using

systemctl enable supervisord

Check if the service is running using

ps aux | grep artisan

You should see the process running if it was set up properly. Similar to the output below.

[root@server ~]# ps aux | grep artisan
appuser 17444  0.1  0.8 378656 31068 ?        S    12:43   0:05 /usr/bin/php /home/appuser/public_html/artisan queue:listen