Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX

2002-03-07 Thread William Waggoner
l. Bill W - Original Message - From: "Dan Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 4:05 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX > > [smudette:~/mailm

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX

2002-03-07 Thread Dan Mick
> > *Why* can't ./configure open conftest.py? > > > > To answer that question, obtain the following: > > > > 1) ls -ld of the containing directory ('.' in ./configure) > > > This bring up the following: > > [smudette:~/mailman-2.0.8] mailman% ls -ld > drwxrwsr-x 33 4101 4101 1078 Nov 27 17:54

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX

2002-03-06 Thread Michael Johnson
On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 03:07 PM, Dan Mick wrote: > 1) all the symptoms of any problem are important, in computers, > medicine, > automobile repair, or psychology. There are three problems above: Correct... > 1) the configure program can't open conftest.py > 2) the cat program can't

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX

2002-03-06 Thread John W Baxter
At 12:07 -0800 3/6/2002, Dan Mick wrote: >*Why* can't ./configure open conftest.py? I just wrote a less-well done version of your message. Fortunately, I didn't send it. I get the feeling that the configure script creates a customized conftest.py and THAT is the step that is going wrong (possib

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX

2002-03-06 Thread Dan Mick
> On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 01:49 PM, Thomas Hillson wrote: > > > Did you look in the /etc/passd and /etc/group to see if the user and > > group were actually placed there. OS-X does not put all the users and > > groups in /etc files as it does not use them for all its functions. It > >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX

2002-03-06 Thread Michael Johnson
On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 01:49 PM, Thomas Hillson wrote: > Did you look in the /etc/passd and /etc/group to see if the user and > group were actually placed there. OS-X does not put all the users and > groups in /etc files as it does not use them for all its functions. It > uses the Net

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX

2002-03-06 Thread Thomas Hillson
Michael, Did you look in the /etc/passd and /etc/group to see if the user and group were actually placed there. OS-X does not put all the users and groups in /etc files as it does not use them for all its functions. It uses the Net-Info files which are different and not all users and groups t

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX and conftest.py

2002-03-06 Thread Michael Johnson
On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 10:52 AM, Michael Johnson wrote: > checking for mailman UID... ./configure: permission denied: conftest.py > [1152] > /usr/local/bin/python: can't open file 'conftest.py' > cat: conftest.out: No such file or directory > I think I've been barking up the wrong tree.

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX

2002-03-06 Thread Michael Johnson
On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 11:18 PM, David B. O'Donnell wrote: > You might want to take a look at the article I wrote for AFP548.com on > installing Mailman under Mac OS X Server: > http://www.afp548.com/Articles/mail/python-mailman.html> I don't > believe there are any steps to the process

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX

2002-03-05 Thread Michael Johnson
On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 12:19 AM, John W Baxter wrote: > At 20:29 -0500 3/5/2002, Michael Johnson wrote: >> I guess the trick is making one or both of them NetInfo aware. I >> looked >> in the archives and didn't see anything on that specifically. Know if >> someone like Scott Anguish

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX

2002-03-05 Thread John W Baxter
At 20:29 -0500 3/5/2002, Michael Johnson wrote: >I guess the trick is making one or both of them NetInfo aware. I looked >in the archives and didn't see anything on that specifically. Know if >someone like Scott Anguish has done anything with this? I didn't see >anything on stepwise. I haven't

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX

2002-03-05 Thread David B. O'Donnell
On Tuesday, 05 March 2002 15:18 -0500 Michael Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then, it happened... > > ./configure --prefix=/Users/mailman > > basic configure file output leading up to... > > checking for mailman UID... ./configure: permission denied: conftest.py > [1152] /usr/local/bin/pyt

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX

2002-03-05 Thread Michael Johnson
On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 08:10 PM, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: The master himself speaks! > Did you in fact create user mailman? It's complaining it doesn't exist. > I made the user and a group using Server Admin. Then, I tried on OSX client using --with-groupname=staff and still had a proble

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX

2002-03-05 Thread Chuq Von Rospach
Did you in fact create user mailman? It's complaining it doesn't exist. If you've created it, it may be that mailman and/or python needs to be made netinfo aware. But I kjnow others have gotten mailman running fine under MacOS x. it's something I've got on my plate for Real Soon Now (in fact, tal

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX

2002-03-05 Thread Jon Carnes
Alas, I havn't played with the Mac OSX (though folks in my LUG say it's Xtremely cool...), so I don't know how the system sets users/groups. Some other folks on this list in the past have written treatises about this very subject. Perhaps a dive into the Archives will part the veils? Again,

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX

2002-03-05 Thread Michael Johnson
On Tuesday, March 5, 2002, at 04:29 PM, Jon Carnes wrote: > Whenever I have similar problems - which thankfully is not often - I > open up > the "configure" file and find the part where it died. Usually that is > fairly easy as it flows through the script linearly and you can see the > last >

Re: [Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX

2002-03-05 Thread Jon Carnes
Jon Carnes - Original Message - From: "Michael Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 3:18 PM Subject: [Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX > Hi gang > > I've just installed Python and happily found it to be ver

[Mailman-Users] Installation on Mac OSX

2002-03-05 Thread Michael Johnson
Hi gang I've just installed Python and happily found it to be very simple. I also noted the incredible speed difference between a 500 iceBook, a G4/400, and a G4/500. Then it came time to install the mailman stuff. I downloaded 2.0.8 and unpacked it. I went to add the user and group of mai