zFone stuck in my startup

Applications & Software

April 2, 2006 - 2:52am

Everytime I start up, (in verbose mode) I can see it’s trying to find something related to an app developed by Phil Zimmerman (zFone). I couldn’t get it to work, so I tried removing it with AppZapper.

The app is gone, but that silly startup item is still there. I fired up an app called Lingon (launchd editor) but no entry in there either.

Any idea how I can remove that entry? I wish I could give you guys more info what it says, but basically it’s just saying it can’t find something related to zFone.

I would try and read up on the documentation… but his site seems down right now.

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April 2, 2006 - 1:07pm

Adam Knight said

$ sudo find / -name '*zFone*'

That will locate anything with zFone in the name on your drive. Alternatively, check:

/etc/mach_init.d
/etc/mach_init_per_user.d
/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/StartupItems

If you still have the original package that installed it (presuming it was installed with a normal Apple package) you can see where it put its files using the lsbom tool like so:

lsbom package.pkg/Contents/Archive.bom

April 3, 2006 - 8:50pm

jasmeet said

Unfortunately cp, none of your methods worked, but I take full blame, since I didn’t provide full details.

Anyhoo, under /etc look for two files: rc.local and rc.zfone.

Under rc.local, it says:

echo “Starting zFone IP Filter”

./etc/rc.zfone

and under rc.zfone

#zFone starting script
/Applications/zFone.app/Contents Resources/voipd

I’m not very comfortable with the way this app has behaved, but oh well. Making backups of the two files, and then clearing rc.local and trashing rc.zfone

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