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