Your article is a LIFESAVER Larry, and I can GUARENTEE YOU that I'm in over my head!
Hopefully with help I can muddle through this and learn something...the links to the screen shots should work now: http://www.mycoachonline.com/mailmanshots/ W :) Wayne Cook wc...@mycoachonline.com http://www.mycoachonline.com/ ------------------- I've flown faster than the speed of sound, stared down a shark while standing on the ocean floor and launched men into space. Care to join me tomorrow? On Apr 18, 2012, at 11:09 AM, Larry Stone wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2012, Wayne Cook wrote: > >> I'm trying to move mailman from OSX server to OSX client on a mac mini with >> OSX 10.6 installed on the machine. >> >> I'm not a terminal expert, but can usually follow and figure things out, so >> I'm attempting to follow these instructions as closely as possible: >> >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2010-May/069385.html > > I'm the author of that. > >> Obviously I'm not doing something correctly because stuff isn't giving me >> the correct response when I check to see what python processes are running. >> >> I have some screen shots here: >> >> http://www.mycoachonline.com/mailmanshots/ > > Unfortunately, that page appears to be broken. Firefox just displays the > alternate text and IE gives a red X. > >> PS I think there is a typo in step 8 of the instructions, but I've tried it >> as written and the two ways that I think it should be written. It says >> create "start_mailman.sh" and the next line is "vi mailman_start.sh", which >> may be correct if you know what you're doing, but to a novice like me it >> looks like one begins with start and the other begins with mailman...should >> it be as written or modified? > > That is an error. It is start_mailman.sh. > > But I am concerned that with three references in Step 8 to the file as > start_mailman.sh and just the one as mailman_start.sh, you only THINK it's a > typo. Even though it's Terminal and not a GUI, if you can't recognize that as > an obvious typo, you might well be in over your head. Running server software > requires an understanding of how things should be working to recognize when > they're not working. > > And also, I assume familiarity with a Terminal text editor. While I've given > you the format of the Terminal command to edit the file in vi (and vi is not > the only way to edit a text file, it's just the one I know and use), I have > not given you all the needed vi commands to create the file. If you merely > typed the lines I said need to be be in the file without any vi commands, you > did not end up with the file you need. > > -- Larry Stone > lston...@stonejongleux.com > ------------------------------------------------------ > 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/wcook%40mycoachonline.com ------------------------------------------------------ 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
