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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:07:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: SYSTEM-owned shell shortcut (Was Re: xinetd Permissions; IMAP server)
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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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