How Can I Schedule custom cron in every 5 minutes.?

Question

cron_groups.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<group id="custom_crongroup">
    <schedule_generate_every>5</schedule_generate_every>
    <schedule_ahead_for>10</schedule_ahead_for>
    <schedule_lifetime>15</schedule_lifetime>
    <history_cleanup_every>10</history_cleanup_every>
    <history_success_lifetime>60</history_success_lifetime>
    <history_failure_lifetime>600</history_failure_lifetime>
    <use_separate_process>1</use_separate_process>
</group>

crontab.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:module:Magento_Cron:etc/crontab.xsd">
    <group id="custom_crongroup">
        <job name="monthly_commission" instance="Rewamp\Promotion\Cron\Run" method="execute">
            <schedule>*/5 * * * *</schedule>
        </job>
    </group>

This cusotm cron is working correctly when i run the cron,

php bin/magento cron:run

from terminal. But i need to run the cron automatically in every 5 minutes. how can i implement this?.

Answer 1

If it's successfully working from terminal, then you need to set up the actual server cron job to run the command.

Have the cron command run every 1 minute. You're custom cron job however will still only run every 5 minutes because Magento knows when it should be ran.

Below is documentation from the Magento themselves instructing how to do so:

http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/config-guide/cli/config-cli-subcommands-cron.html

Answer 2

Maybe this is your idea.

1. Check cronjob installed in your environment

crontab -i

You can install cronjob in ubuntu with command

sudo apt install cron

2. Install magento cronjob

Go to magento workspace and run command line:

php bin/magento cron:remove

php bin/magento cron:install

3. Check Magento cron is installed in the environment

crontab -l

4. Open Mysql and check cron is worked

SELECT * FROM `cron_schedule`

Answer 3

1. Open terminal 
2. write a command crontab -e 
3. write below command

* * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/magento2/bin/magento cron:run 2>&1 | grep -v "Ran jobs by schedule" >> /var/www/html/magento2/var/log/magento.cron.log
* * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/magento2/update/cron.php >> /var/www/html/magento2/var/log/update.cron.log
* * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/magento2/bin/magento setup:cron:run >> /var/www/html/magento2/var/log/setup.cron.log

Note :- check your php and magento 2 folder path according to your project.

Answer 4

<job instance="Vendor\Module\Cron\Filename" method="execute" name="file_functionality">
  <schedule>*/5 * * * *</schedule>
</job>

You can use this to setup cron in every 5 min.