Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:01:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: overbored cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: SYSTEM-owned shell shortcut (Was Re: xinetd Permissions; IMAP server) In-Reply-To: <4130FD58.2050504@overbored.net> Message-ID: References: <412E8545.4060504@overbored.net> <4130FD58.2050504@overbored.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 Hi, Please make sure your mailer respects the Reply-To: header -- I set it for a reason. Cygwin-related mail should go to the Cygwin mailing list unless specifically requested. More below. 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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/