cron

Instalar cron daemon en Windows con Cygwin es muy fácil como veremos a continuación.

Hay que bajar e instalar el paquete cron desde setup.exe, luego de eso procedemos a instalar cron como servicio.

$ /usr/bin/cron-config
Do you want to install the cron daemon as a service? (yes/no) yes

The service can run either as yourself or under a privileged account.
Running as yourself allows better access to network drives,
but does not allow to run the crontab of other users.
Do you want to the cron daemon to run as yourself?