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SkullMacPN · Jan 20, 2004, 08:19 AM

Ok, kinda freaky. Last night I returned from a weekend away to notice iTunes running. Funny, I thought, since I quit everything before I left. Upon trying to quit iTunes, it simply relaunches 2-10 seconds later (the delay varies). Force quit, killall, logouts, and reboots have all failed to resolve this issue. It even auto-launches after reboot.

I generally leave iTunes running with sharing anyway, but perhaps someone installed a cron job on me to keep iTunes open so they could download from me? I'm not getting any sort of message about another user being connected to me when i quit iTunes.

Latest everything (10.3.2, iTunes 4.2).

Tsilou B. · Jan 20, 2004, 08:27 AM

You could open a Terminal window and enter the following commands:

ps -axww
cat /etc/crontab
ls -l /etc/crontab

Post the complete output here. Then we can probably help you.

Diggory Laycock · Jan 20, 2004, 08:45 AM

Do you have an iTunes accessory app running - like Sofa or PTHiTunesNotifier?

Often they launch iTunes to get their info.

SkullMacPN · Jan 20, 2004, 11:27 AM

Originally posted by Diggory Laycock:
Do you have an iTunes accessory app running - like Sofa or PTHiTunesNotifier?

Often they launch iTunes to get their info.

Ah! I didn't even think about that. I have the iTunes plugin switched on in the Adium 2 beta, which is set to launch at startup.

Ineed, quitting Adium and then iTunes prevents iTunes from relaunching.

Thanks for the suggestion.