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Date:	Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:01:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To:	overbored <overbored AT overbored DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: SYSTEM-owned shell shortcut (Was Re: xinetd Permissions; IMAP server)
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On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, overbored wrote:

> Hi, thanks for your reply. After spending 10 minutes staring at it, I think
> I've figured out what your script is doing. Just out of curiosity...why does
> there need to be a delay?

Because the retarded task scheduler interface (a.k.a. "at.exe") only
accepts times in minutes, so you have to wait for the next minute boundary
to schedule it.

HTH,
	Igor

> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >
> > > [snip]
> > > Or you could try to get a SYSTEM-owned shell, and remove it from there.
> > > FWIW, I have a handy shortcut for that (see below).
> >
> > Sorry, I forgot to include the promised shortcut.  Here it is:
> >
> > C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe -c "at $(date +%H):$(($(date +%M) + 1)) /interactive
> > 'c:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe' --login -i; secs=$((60 - $(date +%S))); while [
> > $secs -ne 0 ]; do echo -ne 'Please wait '$secs' seconds for the shell \r';
> > sleep 1; secs=$(($secs - 1)); done"
> >
> > Just paste the above line in the "Target:" field of the shortcut.  What
> > this will do is show a window with the countdown until the system-owned
> > login shell pops up.  If you want to make it really nice, set the width of
> > the shortcut screen buffer (in the Layout tab) to 38 and the height to 1.
> >
> > The above assumes you installed Cygwin in c:/cygwin.  If you installed it
> > somewhere else, the shortcut needs to be modified accordingly.
> > HTH,
> > 	Igor

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