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doronkatz - Aug 8, 2007 - 11:24 am

My Mac OSX Terminal, upon launching automatically goes to MySql, when I want it to go to the prompt. is there a special file I can edit, i.e .profile, that would clear this?

Secondly, I cant seem to get an alias to point to the mysql path, so I can run mysql from any directory in terminal.

CaribbeanOS-X - Aug 8, 2007 - 10:24 pm

Welcome to the tech support forum.

Your question is interesting to me... i am not fluent in using Terminal but on reading your request i did some digging. Here is a page from apple that might help or not!

http://developer.apple.com/documenta...1/reset.1.html

If there are others here who know... your question will be answered.

I will keep you posted, as well as try to discover a solution.

Best,

CaribbeanOS-X

doronkatz - Aug 9, 2007 - 11:43 am

Thanks mate. not sure if that helps me. I need to know which file to edit. I can get to the terminal prompt, by using PathFinder, so i can edit a profile file, but i just need ot know what and how.

Thanks in advance

macbri - Aug 11, 2007 - 7:48 pm

Hi there -

Didn't you have this problem before? I thought we had sorted it out:

http://macosx.com/tech-support/termi...ql/333825.html

doronkatz - Aug 12, 2007 - 12:30 am

hi mate.
yeah i did but looking at the notes you gave me before, this time it doesnt work for some strange reason, i did exactly the same way i did it before, it is odd.

doronkatz - Aug 12, 2007 - 4:53 am

i worked it out , i went and recovered last week's backup of my computer ill be sure not to paly around with .profile again hehe

macbri - Aug 12, 2007 - 12:35 pm

Nice!

From editing .profile etc. I've caused problems to the point where I'll always keep another terminal session open, so that if everything goes pear-shaped it's easier to recover. Just my 2c.