I'm using the terminal version of Folding@home, and know every time I open a new terminal window it launches the OSX-3.25 and starts the folding process without giving me an option for input. Help me get my terminal back!!
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Folding Hijacked my Terminal!
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From the Terminal app, I did File>New Command... and typed "cat .login" and got:
HUS412A:~ briankersten$ cat .login; exit
alias start 'cd ~/F@H1; ./OSX-3.25 -local -advmethods > /dev/null &'
alias stop 'killall OSX-3.25'
alias work '~/.work'
alias rid '~/.rid'
alias pause 'killall -STOP -m "FahCore*"'
alias resume 'killall -CONT -m "FahCore*"'
logout
[Process completed]
does that help?
I'm not terminal savvy, but I do use it occasionally.
HUS412A:~ briankersten$ cat .login; exit
alias start 'cd ~/F@H1; ./OSX-3.25 -local -advmethods > /dev/null &'
alias stop 'killall OSX-3.25'
alias work '~/.work'
alias rid '~/.rid'
alias pause 'killall -STOP -m "FahCore*"'
alias resume 'killall -CONT -m "FahCore*"'
logout
[Process completed]
does that help?
I'm not terminal savvy, but I do use it occasionally.
Re: Re: Re: Folding Hijacked my Terminal!
Ok, your clean, I just wanted to rule out the obvious. Now, is there anything in your .bashrc that would fire off folding?
Go to your home directory at do a cat .bashrc
Again, I don't now much about the scripts floating around to control the CLI folding client. I just use the CLI client as is. mc68k is probably the one to troubleshoot this.
Ok, your clean, I just wanted to rule out the obvious. Now, is there anything in your .bashrc that would fire off folding?
Go to your home directory at do a cat .bashrc
Again, I don't now much about the scripts floating around to control the CLI folding client. I just use the CLI client as is. mc68k is probably the one to troubleshoot this.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Folding Hijacked my Terminal!
How, I am rather confused... I can't type it in a new terminal window, because every terminal window I open starts the folding script. If I move the folding script is gives me an error, and then [process completed]. If I do a "New Command" from the file menu with a cat .bashrc it says something like command not found and then [process completed].
How, I am rather confused... I can't type it in a new terminal window, because every terminal window I open starts the folding script. If I move the folding script is gives me an error, and then [process completed]. If I do a "New Command" from the file menu with a cat .bashrc it says something like command not found and then [process completed].
ok i'm confused too. try getting rid of folding using the rid command.
quit out of the terminal, then fire up the terminal again to see if the problem persists.
try reinstalling afterwards...i have never ur situation happen, but panther does throw in some more variables i guess. maybe a bad script install?
the main files for controlling folding are the crontab and the .login file. the .login file u posted is the same thing. crontab doesn't have anything to do with ur problem.
tell me how it goes...i hate to have u lose work, but sometimes those r the breaks
quit out of the terminal, then fire up the terminal again to see if the problem persists.
try reinstalling afterwards...i have never ur situation happen, but panther does throw in some more variables i guess. maybe a bad script install?
the main files for controlling folding are the crontab and the .login file. the .login file u posted is the same thing. crontab doesn't have anything to do with ur problem.
tell me how it goes...i hate to have u lose work, but sometimes those r the breaks
I didn't use your scripts mc68k, I've just got the regular OS X-3.25 file running in the terminal.
Yes, I can even restart my machine, and the problem will still persist.
Yes, I can even restart my machine, and the problem will still persist.
I changed it to /bin/tsch as you mentioned, both within the Terminal preferences (the screenshot I posted earlier, and within the NetInfo application. I think that I may have install the scripts, then changed my mind, and decided to use the regular console version from the folding@home website.
I tried the rid command and it gave me this:
[HUS412A:~] brianker% rid; exit
tcsh: rid: Command not found.
logout
[Process completed]
edit: I tried re-downloading/re-installing the script, but it gave the same information.
I tried the rid command and it gave me this:
[HUS412A:~] brianker% rid; exit
tcsh: rid: Command not found.
logout
[Process completed]
edit: I tried re-downloading/re-installing the script, but it gave the same information.
Not so much
Here's the response from "the man behind the curtain"
[HUS412A:~] brianker% rm .login; exit
rm: .login: No such file or directory
logout
[Process completed]
Here's the response from "the man behind the curtain"
[HUS412A:~] brianker% rm .login; exit
rm: .login: No such file or directory
logout
[Process completed]
edit your .login file, change 'start' and 'stop' to something else (like 'start_fold' / 'stop_fold') and see if that does anything.
you can edit your .login w/ TextEdit. browse to Home and type '.login' in the 'Go To' area.
if that solves your problem, then somewhere 'start' is being called. maybe in .bashrc or something, or maybe it's built into the Panther shell startup routine.
you can edit your .login w/ TextEdit. browse to Home and type '.login' in the 'Go To' area.
if that solves your problem, then somewhere 'start' is being called. maybe in .bashrc or something, or maybe it's built into the Panther shell startup routine.
Okay, I changed my Terminal preferences to the "Execute the default login shell using /usr/bin/login" selection, but I don't know how to access the .login file as mentioned by zimv20. Is this through the Finder? Where is the goto bar? I am in Panther if that makes difference.
And I thought that I was pretty good at working my system.
And I thought that I was pretty good at working my system.
Originally posted by stoid
Okay, I changed my Terminal preferences to the "Execute the default login shell using /usr/bin/login" selection, but I don't know how to access the .login file as mentioned by zimv20. Is this through the Finder? Where is the goto bar? I am in Panther if that makes difference.
And I thought that I was pretty good at working my system.
When you open Terminal and folding starts automatically, what happens if you just hit Ctrl-C? Does the terminal window just close?
AHHHH!! YAY!!!
pressing ctrl-c does halt the folding, and let me enter commands, so I can access my terminal now as normal, but I would still like to be able to open a new terminal window and not have to press ctrl-c. Also I would like to try out mc68k scripts again in hopes that I will get a gromacs WU instead of all these dang tinker WUs.
pressing ctrl-c does halt the folding, and let me enter commands, so I can access my terminal now as normal, but I would still like to be able to open a new terminal window and not have to press ctrl-c. Also I would like to try out mc68k scripts again in hopes that I will get a gromacs WU instead of all these dang tinker WUs.
I had terminal running a program whenever I opened a new terminal. I figured out how to fix it. Go to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.terminal.plist and then you should be able to find the evil startup commands in there.
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great
AlexanderDGreat said:
I know this thread is really old, but I was having the same problem on 10.3.2 and I was really frustrated until I removed an execution string for fah4 from my ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.terminal.plist
Now I'm using mc68k's scripts on a few dual G5's.