Larry,
Thank you for your help and suggestions. I have researched your recommendations and am now learning about the specific commands you suggested. Joe On 12/8/10 4:05 PM, "Larry Stone" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/8/10 2:01 PM, JRC Groups at [email protected] wrote: > >> 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 ? >> >> In this case, if Terminal is necessary, can you guide on how to take a step >> by step approach to getting it done ? I have never edited a file (specially >> a system file) in Terminal before and don't know how to go about it. > > This is somewhat off-topic for the Mailman list but if you want to do any > sort of advanced system administration on a Macintosh, you need, IMHO, to be > familiar with Unix shell commands and related utility. The Mac OS X Terminal > program just creates a shell process and window where you then execute shell > commands. > > At a minimum, you need to be familiar with certain basic commands like ls > (directory) and commands for creating (touch among others), renaming/MoVing > (mv), and deleting/ReMoving (rm) files and directories (mkdir, mv, and rmdir > respectively). You also need to be familiar with one of the standard text > editors (vi or emacs) as well as commands for dealing with file ownership > (chown) and permissions (chmod). ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] 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
