Problems with Terminal (Newbie)

[skoggis]

Hi!

This is propably going to sound very stupid to all you Unix-gurus, but...

When I start Terminal, it tries to automatically connect to my email account using ssh.

It says following:

ssh -c 3des -2 -l myusername address -p 22

I have used a quick control-c to abort the connection, but this is getting really annoying. Can anybody suggest a way to eliminate this? I'm an old mac user but very new to Unix. I'm learning...

Tnx in advance

[dan_c00per]

In your home directory, type 'sudo pico .login', then enter you password, use the pico editor to remove the command you don't want and save the file

[skoggis]

There is no .login file in my home directory. Using the command you provided just makes Pico create a new empty file. Could it be located in somewhere else?

Tnx

[dan_c00per]

Type 'sudo ls' in your home folder, what files do you have beginning with a '.'?

[skoggis]

.CFUserTextEncoding
.lpoptions
.DS_Store
.mplayer
.MCXLC
.ssh
.sversionrc
.Trash
.user60.rdb
.Xauthority
.appletviewer
.xftcache
.java
.jpi_cache

sudo pico .ssh gives me an File read error...

[dan_c00per]

.ssh is a folder which contains details of machines that you have ssh'd into and added to your list of known hosts

What version OS are you running, it appears to be different between 10.1 and 10.2

[symphonix]

Also, check the Terminal preferences, as it is possible to set a command there that will run when each new terminal window is opened.

[skoggis]

Originally posted by symphonix
Also, check the Terminal preferences, as it is possible to set a command there that will run when each new terminal window is opened.

Terminal preferences says that it executes something from /usr/bin/login.

I tried to sudo pico login in the /usr/bin directory, but I can't understand the file. There's nothing that says ssh, only some symbols and letters that don't make any sense to me