terminal help

dogsipod · #1 February 1st, 2007, 12:07 AM

i was snooping around in my applications folder and I found the show package contents option. I selected this and explored around alittle until i got to a icon that was a black screen with exec written on it. To make a long story short I doubled clicked the icon. Now when ever I open terminal it displays the following:

Last login: Wed Jan 31 21:40:27 on ttyp1
/Applications/CoreDuoTemp.app/Contents/MacOS/CoreDuoTemp; exit
Welcome to Darwin!
lamshell:~ ryan$ /Applications/CoreDuoTemp.app/Contents/MacOS/CoreDuoTemp; exit

that will stay there until i ctrl+z and us 'ps' to get the pid so i can kill -9 the job. It appears to me that by clicking the exec file it somehow linked it to the terminal startup. i tried uninstalling the app and all that did was cause the terminal to respond that the file /Applications/CoreDuoTemp.app/Contents/MacOS/CoreDuoTemp doesn't exist. i have played with all the window settings in terminal and the open a saved .term file is not checked.

Any help to unlink opening a terminal with starting the CoreDuoTemp app would be much appreciated.

dogsipod · #2 February 1st, 2007, 12:17 AM

whoops....just figured it out. thanks for anyone who was looking in to it.

rwilkerson · #3 February 1st, 2007, 12:45 PM

Please post the solution so that other folks who may be searching for answers to the same problem can learn.

Thanks.

arri · #4 February 3rd, 2007, 12:55 AM

i guess it altered some terminal-preference to run a certain script or open a .term file every time you open a new terminal window?

dogsipod · #5 February 4th, 2007, 06:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rwilkerson

Please post the solution so that other folks who may be searching for answers to the same problem can learn.

Thanks.

sorry...i meant to do so. i just got busy working on my fortran program again.

i created a test admin account and saw that its terminal opened up fine with no problem. this told me that i needed to look for a setting saved for my main account. i decided to check the .plist for the terminal app located at ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist. When I opend that and looked I saw that it had a exec string file with the guilty party, in my case it had /Applications/CoreDuoTemp.app/Contents/MacOS/CoreDuoTemp. I removed this and terminal started up like normal since.