[OT] Mac OS X: stop Folding@Home startup app in Terminal.app

[Clinton MacDonald]

Friends:

This is OFF TOPIC, but I need help from Smart Friends(TM). If you choose 
to ignore it, I don't blame you.

Where can I find, modify, or kill Terminal.app shell startup items in 
Mac OS X (10.3.8)?

Long ago, I set up the Folding at Home command line client to run when I 
started a Terminal session. I do not recall how I did this. Now, I want 
the application *not* to start up when I open a new Terminal window, but 
I can't for the life of me figure out how to stop it.

I am running the tcsh shell, but the same problem occurs if I switch to 
the bash shell. I thought that this might be a weird line in my startup 
script, but I cannot for the life of me find the startup script (and how 
could the same script affect both tcsh and bash?). If I move the 
offending Folding at Home executable (fah5, if that matters), then I cannot 
start a shell at all. If I use control-C to kill the fah startup, it 
kills the shell session. Grrrr!

Here is what I see in the Terminal (I have switched back to tcsh for 
this demo):

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Last login: Fri Apr 15 18:37:10 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
/Applications/\ OS\ X\ Goodies/fah5; exit
[dhcp-66-230-20-nn:~] clint% /Applications/\ OS\ X\ Goodies/fah5; exit

Note: Please read the license agreement (fah5 -license). Further
use of this software requires that you have read and accepted this 
agreement.

[snip]

Launch directory: /Users/clint/Library/Folding at home
Executable: /Applications/ OS X Goodies/fah5

[23:38:38] - Ask before connecting: Yes
[23:38:38] - User name: ClintMacD (Team 0)
[23:38:38] - User ID: 266048840CB7347C
[23:38:38] - Machine ID: 1
[23:38:38]
[23:38:38] Loaded queue successfully.
[23:38:38] + Benchmarking ...
^C
[dhcp-66-230-20-nn:~] clint%

-- ------(End included text)----------

A directory listing shows now obvious startup files in my Home dir:

-- ------(Included text)----------
[dhcp-66-230-20-96:~] clint% ls -aFl
total 2652096
drwxr-xr-x  29 clint  staff         986  9 Apr 17:56 ./
drwxrwxr-t   6 root   admin         204  6 Aug  2004 ../
-rw-r--r--   1 clint  staff           3 21 Nov  2003 .CFUserTextEncoding
-rwxr-xr-x   1 clint  staff       15364 15 Apr 13:32 .DS_Store*
-rw-r--r--   1 clint  staff           0 21 Nov  2003 .MCXLC
drwx------   3 clint  staff         102 15 Apr 17:52 .Trash/
-rw-------   1 clint  staff         498 15 Apr 18:38 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--   1 clint  staff          43 13 Apr  2004 .bash_profile
drwxr-xr-x   3 clint  staff         102  7 May  2004 .emacs.d/
drwxr-xr-x   2 clint  staff          68 14 Aug  2004 .java/
drwxr-xr-x  13 clint  staff         442  7 May  2004 .jedit/
drwxr-xr-x   4 clint  staff         136 25 Nov  2003 .jpi_cache/
-rw-r--r--   1 clint  staff          20 30 Nov 17:20 .lpoptions
-rw-r--r--   1 clint  staff         193  9 Apr 17:56 .recentf
drwx------   3 clint  staff         102 23 Nov  2003 .ssh/
-rw-r--r--   1 clint  staff        1461 17 Jun  2004 .start_bibsphere.log
-rw-r--r--   1 clint  staff        2048 27 Jun  2004 .user60.rdb
drwx------  32 clint  staff        1088 14 Apr 18:36 Desktop/
drwx------  50 clint  staff        1700  9 Apr 17:56 Documents/
-rw-r--r--   1 clint  staff   678912000 15 Apr 18:40 Downloads 
2004-07-22.dmg
-rw-r--r--   1 clint  staff   678912000 15 Apr 18:37 Journal PDFs.dmg
drwx------  53 clint  staff        1802 13 Apr 12:24 Library/
drwx------  22 clint  staff         748 17 Mar 14:42 Movies/
drwx------   5 clint  staff         170  6 Aug  2004 Music/
drwx---rwx   3 clint  nobody        102  1 Feb 11:59 Network Trash Folder/
drwx------   9 clint  staff         306 12 Nov 16:36 Pictures/
drwxr-xr-x  12 clint  staff         408 21 Mar 16:18 Public/
drwxr-xr-x   7 clint  staff         238 18 Dec  2003 Sites/
drwxrwxrwx   2 clint  nobody         68  1 Feb 11:58 
TheVolumeSettingsFolder/
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The ".bash_history" and ".bash_profile" files contain no reference to 
startup items (and I'm running tcsh, anyways).

What gives?

Thanks for any and all help you can give me!

Best wishes,
Clint

-- 
Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint DOT macdonald AT sbcglobal DOT net>