Cygwin

See also Unix commands.

cygpath

If you need to pass filename arguments from a Cygwin shell to Windows-native programs, you'll probably find cygpath useful.

Setting up some Cygwin services

Setting up cron

First, make sure cron is even installed. Apparently, it's not default. Look under "Admin".

Then, the prevailing command sequence is

cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
net start cron

Setting up sshd

Start with

ssh-host-config

Yes to privilege separation, yes to local user sshd, yes to install as a service, and default for how to set CYGWIN= at start.

Then,

net start sshd

If you only want to run the thing on localhost, comment any ListenAddress lines in sshd_config except one saying

ListenAddress 127.0.0.1

Permissions required to do that are something you can figure out.