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You have an executable my-program in your home directory, which
you want to run every hour. Create a file job.vixie in directory
~/.cron with the following contents
0 * * * * my-program
then run the command mcron.
Alternatively (full compatibility with Vixie cron), set your
environment variable EDITOR to your favorite editor, run
crontab -e, put the above line into the edit buffer, save and
exit. For this to work the cron daemon must be already running
on your system, as root. This style of operations is considered
deprecated.