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

Sat Apr 16 14:16:04 MDT 2005

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I'll chime in with my two cents here;

1.)  Simple suggestion, maybe you have tried it, but have you looked in 
~/.bashrc or /etc/bashrc? Or maybe ~/.login has what you're looking 
for. Or hey, ~/.tschrc?

2.)  I'm going to take a stab in the dark and assume that you read some 
sort of instructions when you set this up.  If you could try to 
rememeber what those were, you could look those up again; perhaps 
that'll spark inspiration and/or memories.

- --Andy

On Apr 15, 2005, at 7:20 PM, Clinton MacDonald wrote:

> 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):
>
> -- ------(Included text)----------
>
> 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/
> -- ------(End included text)----------
>
> 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>
>
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