Create PHP File “cront_test.php” with following code:

<?php
$crontext = “Cron Run at “.date(“r”).” by “.$_SERVER[‘USER’].”\n” ;
$folder = substr($_SERVER[‘SCRIPT_FILENAME’],0,strrpos($_SERVER[‘SCRIPT_FILENAME’],”/”)+1);
$filename = $folder.”cron_test.txt” ;
$fp = fopen($filename,”a”) or die(“Open error!”);
fwrite($fp, $crontext) or die(“Write error!”);
fclose($fp);
echo “Wrote to “.$filename.”\n\n” ;
?>

Add following into crontab (crontab -u apache -e)
*/2 * * * * php /yourfolder/cron_test.php