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Messed up Terminal, it won't load to a prompt... Any help appreciated.
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Stingrey
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Jun 14, 2005, 08:22 PM
 
Basically this is what I have now where "process completed" is where it stops. if I ctrl + c quick enough, it quits what it's doing before it fails where failure here is indicated by NO command prompt coming up anymore:

Last login: Tue Jun 14 19:04:53 on ttyp2
/Users/stingrey/Desktop/rundns-unix-bundle-0.81/rundns-macosx-0.92/install; exit
UNwelcomeD! If you do not belong, turn back NOW!
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IP... Logged
OS... Logged
DT... Logged
HR... Logged

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[xmac:~] stingrey% /Users/stingrey/Desktop/rundns-unix-bundle-0.81/rundns-macosx-0.92/install; exit
tcsh: /Users/stingrey/Desktop/rundns-unix-bundle-0.81/rundns-macosx-0.92/install: Command not found.
logout
[Process completed]

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Basically to cause the above I ran a DynDNS app which is indiicated as being for OS X from DynDNS.org.... What happened after that is the same as the above, except that at that point I had another terminal open and worked with it for a bit to try and figure out why my attempt was not working. Either way, now ANY terminal even after a restart (old Windows habit) same issues. Tried clearing the tcsh_history files of the /long/command/install; exit thing from history and STILL every new Terminal after restarting the app/OS, etc fails with the command. Where is it stored and how can I remove that from happening so I can just get back to normal again? I tried everything I could think of, but I'm too inexperienced with my *nix based OS to fix it :( Any help HIGHLY appreciated!

Rey :)
     
leira
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Jun 15, 2005, 02:37 AM
 
takin a blind stab here but try editing the "ExecutionString" of your ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist file to look like this:
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<key>ExecutionString</key> <string></string>
     
Stingrey  (op)
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Jun 15, 2005, 06:09 AM
 
Great stab! I'm reset and was able to finally get a prompt again. I owe you big time! Thanks again! Off to work now... Guess I better keep my day job

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