Some magento cli commands can take ages to complete. You start it in terminal, but it require the terminal window to stay alive till the process complete. For example
1 | php bin/magento queue:consumer:start media.storage.catalog.image.resize |
There can be easily 1 million of images and the process can take several days. To bypass this you can run task in background.
Detach process from the terminal
append & to a command to detach it from the terminal. Two notes:
- it is better to redirect output to a file, so you can check it
- you can use
psto check that process is still running
1 | php bin/magento queue:consumer:start media.storage.catalog.image.resize > /var/log/image.resize.log & |
Use “disown”
disown [-ar] [-h] [jobspec ...]Without options, each jobspec is removed from the table of active jobs. If the -h option is given, the job is not removed from the table, but is marked so that SIGHUP is not sent to the job if the shell receives a SIGHUP. If jobspec is not present, and neither the -a nor -r option is supplied, the current job is used. If no jobspec is supplied, the -a option means to remove or mark all jobs; the -r option without a jobspec argument restricts operation to running jobs.
This method is good when you already started the process and now you realize it takes too long to complete.
- press ctrl-z to interrupt the process
- run
bgto make it run in the background - run
jobsto check a list of all background processes - run
disown %1(replace 1 with the process number output by jobs) to detach the process from the terminal
Or you can run it like this
1 | $ COMMAND & disown |
Use screen
1 | $ screen -dm COMMAND |
-d -mStart screen in detached mode. This creates a new session but doesn’t attach to it.
Or you can
- run
screento start a new screen session - run
php bin/magento queue:consumer:start media.storage.catalog.image.resize - exit screen ( CTRL+A CTRL+D ) and return to initial shell
- run
screen -rto reconnect to your screen session
Magento 2: Console Commands Shortcuts
Complete CLI commands list