Cron jobs on shared hosting using laravel scheduler not working

Question

I am having issue of running laravel scheduler to send mails in the queue

The setup is as follows: Laravel 5.7 I have configured the scheduler (App/Console/Kernel.php) like mentioned below

protected function schedule(Schedule $schedule)
{       
  $schedule->command('queue:work --tries=3')->everyFiveMinutes()->withoutOverlapping();
}

The db is set-up as per laravel docs. As soon as I click the link in my UI, I can see the entry in the db.

The .env QUEUE_CONNECTION=database and the same setting in Config/queue.php (if i change the database to sync, it works perfectly)

My cron job in the server is as follows ( i just tried to log the cron)

/usr/local/bin/php /home/XXX/YYY/artisan schedule:run 1>> /home/XXX/public_html/junk/cron_log.php 2>&1

I can see the cron logs getting updated every five minues but

"No scheduled commands are ready to run"

Exactly the same code and settings last night worked(before going to bed). I had tested for more than 40 emais send attempts and the db entries were getting deleted. I only tried to save the scheduler with everyFiveMinues() but now it is not working.

I can understand mails reaching slowly but why the db entries were not deleted like last night?

Answer 1

this may be useful to other who are using Laravel 5.7, shared hosting Godaddy.

The above issue of dispatching email jobs was not executing ( I mean the cron jobs are running but database entries are not cleared. The issue seems to be with

->withoutOverlapping();

After I have deleted this method, I am now seeing the cron_log entries correctly and I have also received mails. My cron_log entries are as seen below

Running scheduled command: '/opt/alt/php71/usr/bin/php' 'artisan' queue:work --tries=3 > '/dev/null' 2>&1

I am guessing the method withoutOverlapping() has problem in cron execution. I have not changed anything in the code.