[danny.watson]

I did something stupid. I modified '/ect/rc' with two lines of code. I have done this before without
and problems but I have one now. Basically I had the lines

'open /path/to/desktopmanager.app'
and
'cd /path/to/smackbook/ ;perl smack.pl'

My problem is my computer is stuck at the start up screen on every boot. I assume this is the case since
I instructed the rc file to load a perl script, and won't let me complete the boot untill the perl
script is done executing. The fact is this perl script never stops executing because it needs to monitor
the sudden motion sensor.

So I booted into single user mode and typed 'pico /ect/rc' but it says file not found.

What is the correct command so I can use the terminal program 'pico' to edit the rc file so I can bring
myself to a previous working state?

[danny.watson]

Im such a fool the path to rc file is /etc/rc not /ect/rc

[larkost]

I am a little worried about you launching something with 'open' from /etc/rc. That gets launched by root, and there is a good chance that when /etc/rc goes that the WindowServer is not available (needed by just about every .app). I think you should make a login item of that instead:

Apple Menu -> System Preferences->Accounts->You Account->Login Items