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Re: Weird bug I can't seem to reproduce, occurs on app deletion.
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Re: Weird bug I can't seem to reproduce, occurs on app deletion.


  • Subject: Re: Weird bug I can't seem to reproduce, occurs on app deletion.
  • From: Sherm Pendley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 14:28:52 -0400

On May 23, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Daniel DeCovnick wrote:

I recently received an... interesting bug report that I haven't been able to reproduce for one of my apps. http://www.softyards.com/ sycureshell.shtml SycureShell works by writing a command out to a file in the Application Support folder (in appropriately named subfolders, of course), which is then chmoded and executed with open -a Terminal (or something similar for use with X11). This is all done with NSTask. (Yes, I realize I did things with NSTask I probably could have done in code, and yes, I realize that the app is in desperate need of updating.)

The report, which I've only gotten once, is that after deleting the app, the user could no longer open the Terminal without my script in the Application Support folder trying to run, whether the script still existed or not. The command doesn't seem to be in their .bashrc or .bash_profile anywhere.

I've tried deleting it on a test machine, and haven't been able to reproduce it. Can anyone shed some light on what might be going on?

When I get a single bug report for an app that works for most people, I start looking for things that user might be doing differently than the others.


In this case, it sounds to me like the user may have set his Terminal preferences to automatically open your startup script, and then deleted your app without resetting his Terminal prefs.

sherm--

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