mysql / php / dev on a mac?

[kishba]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU
What they said. Use your .bak file.

Also, if you're running the full version of BBEdit, you should be able to open files from the command line similar to the way you use pico. Just type "bbedit filename" and it should pop open...from what I've been told.

yep, that works with the command line all thanks to the genius's who wrote bbedit (i love them a bunch)

i remember reading an article on resexcellence about how to open any file with any app from the command line through *nix's alias's... sigh... if only apple could make a simple applescript to do this... the terminal is really growing on me

 

[kishba]

Originally posted by Macette
ah ha, the FULL version of BBEdit. i'm just running the demo - so that would be my problem (and the reason i had to use Pico last time)

thanks for your help.

i remember using the bbedit demo on my laptop several years ago... i was dreadfully confused (my mac friends had been gushing over bbedit and i didn't understand why...)

i really do hope that the creators of bbedit will either lower the price on bbedit (i think it's currently $160) or make the demo a tad more powerful... i think nearly every web designer has heard of bbedit (even my pc dev friends know of it) and they could really convince more people to buy it if they could easily access all of its functionality

bbedit is truly a great app and is worth every penny of its price

 

[Macette]

another prob...

i'm doing the terminal things again (on a different computer) and have come across the following error when I try to sendmail (having previously attempted to change the permissions so that i would be allowed):

insite% can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser.

i think i may have screwed up when chmod'ing... i wrote "sudo chmod g-w/
instead of "sudo chmod g-w /" (note the extra space), and got the following, which i don't remember seeing last time i did this tutorial:

"usage: chmod [-R [-H | -L | -P]] mode file ..."

is this the reason i can't send mail? what have i stuffed up now?

i've repeated the (correct) chmod, but it hasn't changed anything.

 

[kishba]

"usage: chmod [-R [-H | -L | -P]] mode file ..." usually just means chmod did absolutely nothing

i don't think that would have caused any damage but perhaps you should try using "chown" ("chown filename user" - i think that's the context)

it might do something different... but i could be wrong

if that's not it hopefully another commandline guru can come up with a fix/answer (sorry)

 

[Macette]

what is chown? (i haven't done all the tutorials yet..)

and what does this mean:

"insite% can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser."

( i mean, i think i sort of know..)

does chdir mean change directory?

does this mean my mail is not sending?

and why would i not have a ~/Library/Mail/ directory, when the tutorial reckons i should?

maybe i should go back to school..

 

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by Macette
what is chown? (i haven't done all the tutorials yet..)

and what does this mean:

"insite% can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser."

( i mean, i think i sort of know..)

does chdir mean change directory?

does this mean my mail is not sending?

and why would i not have a ~/Library/Mail/ directory, when the tutorial reckons i should?

maybe i should go back to school..

Don't lose hope.

chown changes the owner of a file.

How are you trying to use sendmail? From a PHP or MySQL page?

Yes, chdir changes directory, but you're probably more familiar with its abbreviation "cd".

So you don't have a Mail directory in your Users/username/Library/ hunh? Are you using Mail.app?

 

[Macette]

ahh. i've run the sendmail changes needed for 10.1.5 - how did i miss that? - and now my mail probs are solved.

 

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by Macette
ahh. i've run the sendmail changes needed for 10.1.5 - how did i miss that? - and now my mail probs are solved.

Don't you just hate it when you overlook something like that.

 

[Macette]

OMG, Streamripper is way cool. I love Terminal! I love nerdy stuff! OMG, am becoming massive nerd (first hint was joining macrumors, I suspect)

(do the Terminal tutorials on http://www.macdevcenter.com to find out what i'm talking about, if you don't know already)

xxxx