How to set up a cron job to run an executable every hour?

Question

I need to set up a cron job that runs an executable compiled using gcc once every hour.

I logged in as root and typed crontab -e

Then I entered

Answer 1

If you're using Ubuntu, you can put a shell script in one of these folders: /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron.hourly, /etc/cron.monthly or /etc/cron.weekly.

For more detail, check out this post: https://askubuntu.com/questions/2368/how-do-i-set-up-a-cron-job