On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 01:33 AM, Heather Madrone wrote:
OS X is no different than any other Unix environment.I admit to a lot of confusion about OS X. For example, I'm not sure what "logging out" might mean in this context. Does it mean closing my Terminal session and then forking a new one, or do I have to log out of the entire Mac session?
To get stuff initialized, you need to convince "the shell" to re-read
anything that you use to initialize it -- any .cshrc or .profile file
for example -- when you make changes to them. In Unix, you either spawn
a completely new LOGIN shell or "source" the dot file.
The only thing which seems different is the GUI login window.
Many things (but not all)can be re-initialized by relaunching the finder
.... under the Apple menu, pick "force quit" and when you select "Finder"
the button changes to "relaunch."
However, as with Unix, the only way that you can be certain that things will
really work the same way the next time you login, is to log out and log back
in again. Under OSX you either use the pulldown and logout or cmd-shift-Q.
Also, closing the Terminal session and then forking a new one, may or may
not do what you expect depending on the options you have set. The default is to
launch a new window via /bin/login, but you can deselect that under preferences.
Terminal also has a separate "Window settings" (inspector) whose preferences
default to ONLY the open window, unless you click the "use as default" option
at the bottom of each pane.
Probably the most useful option here is the "Processes" selection. Assuming you
use the terminal for remote access - via ssh, for example -- you can only have
warn you that you have an open session by deleting the "ssh" entry from the bottom
pane and selecting "if there are no other processes other than:". This gets rid of
that "do you really want to do this" window when you have only an empty shell active,
and have just exited from your remote session.
T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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