[OT] Mac OS X: stop Folding@Home startup app in Terminal.app
mascarasnake
dontdrill at earthlink.net
Sat Apr 16 14:22:22 MDT 2005
Hey Dr. Clint,
Have you gone to the preferences in Terminal.app?
[Terminal-->Preferences] or [Command]+[,]
The dialog box should give you two radio buttons at the top. One gives
you the option to execute the default login shell (/usr/bin/login) and
the other, the option to select a command to execute. It may be that
your protein thingy is getting started from here.
This may be exceedingly simple, but you didn't mention trying this.
HTHO
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
>
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