Running cron in magento
Setting cron In your command line use this command sudo crontab -e //add your cron */1 * * * * /bin/sh /var/www/html/canon_2016/cron.sh >> /var/log/myjob.log 2>&1 sudo crontab -l (shows the list of cron) To test cron is running or not try { Mage::getConfig()->init()->loadEventObservers('crontab'); Mage::app()->addEventArea('crontab'); Mage::dispatchEvent('default'); $log = fopen(__FILE__.'.log', 'a'); fwrite($log, date("Y-m-d H:i:s").PHP_EOL); fclose($log); } catch (Exception $e) { Mage::printException($e); } place this code at the bottom of cron.php file in magento root directory,it will create cron.php.log file,which will show when the cron job start