JRC Groups wrote: > >I am extremely grateful that you took the time to help me with this issue. >In order for me to make the changes you recommended please allow me to ask >some truly basic questions since I have no experience with Unix or editing >system files. > >Is there a simpler way than Terminal (command line) to edit these files and >then resave them ? Something along the lines of a text editor. Or do I need >to use Terminal to do it ?
You can edit the files with the TextEdit application, but there may be serious issues with permissions or even navigating to the files in Finder or the TextEdit open dialog. I suggest you do the following: To change the postfix main.cf file, use the postconf command's -e option as in > sudo postconf -e "virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual_users, > hash:/var/mailman/data/virtual-mailman" (above command is all on one line) See "man postconf" for details. To edit mm_cfg.py, in terminal you can do > sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Comtents/MacOS/TextEdit > /usr/share/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py (above command is all on one line) This will open the file in TextEdit in a way that you can save your changes. There may be better ways to do this. For example, on my Mac I have a 'root' user I can log on to. I would log on as this user and open terminal and then invoke the 'vi' editor on the files, but I can't explain how to use 'vi' as simply as I can explain the above. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
