Self-Executing C program or Bash file

Question

I am writing a program/script that should check what services are running on a computer every hour. Is there a way to automatically launch this program every hour? I could manually launch it but that would defeat the purpose of the script. Sorry for the ambiguity of the question. I will update it as I get responses.

EDIT: Linux local desktops and Windows remote desktops. Cron and scheduler seem to be the tools needed to launch the program. How do I automatically add my script to them? Manually adding the script to each box would be tedious.

Answer 1

This is more about your OS than language.

You could make an app that sleeps for 60 mins then does a check (put it in a loop and you're done), but on unix systems you would be better of using cron. On Windows it's called the scheduler and has APIs to access it.