How to set up a cron job to run an executable every hour?
If you're using Ubuntu, you can put a shell script in one of these directories: /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
0 * * * * cd folder_containing_exe && ./exe_name
should work unless there is something else that needs to be setup for the program to run.
You can also use @hourly
instant of 0 * * * *
The solution to solve this is to find out why you're getting the segmentation fault, and fix that.