I have a magento2.2.0 based website and I am trying to get the cron jobs running. the server is a Ubuntu server with no control panel (AWS EC2 hosting) . so i ssh’ed into the instance and went to

sudo crontab -u root -e  

and below is what I have

* * * * * php -c /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini var/www/html/***.com/v2/bin/magento cron:run * * * * * php -c /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini var/www/html/***.com/v2/update/cron.php * * * * * php -c /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini var/www/html/***.com/v2/bin/magento setup:cron:run 

i edited the cron.php file at the top i have a php mail() tag setup to send me an email when the file is executed so i can know cron is running but after waiting 2 minutes and do not think that cron is running.

odd thing is when I try to run the cron.php via ssh command line I still am not getting the file to send me an email so idk if its working?