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

Sat Apr 16 14:20:30 MDT 2005

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Whoops, you gave your home directory listing in your message.  Silly me.

I'll keep this short, look in bash/tsch/csh etc. files in /etc/.

- --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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