cron in cygwin

For all of the cool unix stuff that cygwin provides I have often wondered, but never tried cron. Today I did a google, and it turns out to be relatively trivial (from this link):



1. Need to set the mode of cygwin1.dll

$ chmod +x /bin/cygwin1.dll

2. Need to create another directory (I didnt need this step)

$ mkdir /etc/cron.d

Also make it accessible, by changing the permission.

3. Then, follow the standard guideline to start cron service, as

$ cygrunsrv --stop cron

$ cygrunsrv --remove cron

$ cygrunsrv --install cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D

$ cygrunsrv --start cron



And all is well.