I'm trying to follow the Pelican instructions to configure a newpost function and hitting this:
Robins-MBPX:ghpages robinedwards$ make newpost NAME='Test'
echo "Title: Test" > /Users/robinedwards/Documents/OSU/ghpages/content/test.md
echo "Slug: test" >> /Users/robinedwards/Documents/OSU/ghpages/content/test.md
echo "Date: 2017-02-16 13\:25\:36" >> /Users/robinedwards/Documents/OSU/ghpages/content/test.md
echo "" >> /Users/robinedwards/Documents/OSU/ghpages/content/test.md
echo "" >> /Users/robinedwards/Documents/OSU/ghpages/content/test.md
/Users/robinedwards/Documents/OSU/ghpages/content/test.md &
/bin/sh: /Users/robinedwards/Documents/OSU/ghpages/content/test.md: Permission denied
Checking permissions:
Robins-MBPX:ghpages robinedwards$ ls -lah
total 80
drwxr-xr-x 14 robinedwards staff 476B 15 Feb 16:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 robinedwards staff 170B 15 Feb 17:12 ..
-rw-r--r--@ 1 robinedwards staff 6.0K 16 Feb 09:49 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x 14 robinedwards staff 476B 15 Feb 17:54 .git
-rw-r--r-- 1 robinedwards staff 16B 15 Feb 17:54 .gitignore
-rw-r--r-- 1 robinedwards staff 5.1K 16 Feb 11:47 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 robinedwards staff 44B 15 Feb 17:55 README.md
drwxr-xr-x 4 robinedwards staff 136B 14 Feb 15:15 __pycache__
drwxr-xr-x 7 robinedwards staff 238B 16 Feb 13:25 content
-rwxr-xr-x 1 robinedwards staff 2.2K 14 Feb 14:43 develop_server.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 robinedwards staff 2.4K 14 Feb 14:43 fabfile.py
drwxr-xr-x 13 robinedwards staff 442B 14 Feb 14:45 output
-rw-r--r-- 1 robinedwards staff 850B 14 Feb 15:05 pelicanconf.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 robinedwards staff 534B 14 Feb 15:15 publishconf.py
Robins-MBPX:ghpages robinedwards$ ls -lah content/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 3 robinedwards staff 102B 16 Feb 13:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 robinedwards staff 476B 15 Feb 16:56 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 robinedwards staff 53B 16 Feb 13:25 test.md
This is my Makefile:
PY?=python3
PELICAN?=pelican
PELICANOPTS=
BASEDIR=$(CURDIR)
INPUTDIR=$(BASEDIR)/content
OUTPUTDIR=$(BASEDIR)/output
CONFFILE=$(BASEDIR)/pelicanconf.py
PUBLISHCONF=$(BASEDIR)/publishconf.py
FTP_HOST=localhost
FTP_USER=anonymous
FTP_TARGET_DIR=/
SSH_HOST=localhost
SSH_PORT=22
SSH_USER=root
SSH_TARGET_DIR=/var/www
S3_BUCKET=my_s3_bucket
CLOUDFILES_USERNAME=my_rackspace_username
CLOUDFILES_API_KEY=my_rackspace_api_key
CLOUDFILES_CONTAINER=my_cloudfiles_container
DROPBOX_DIR=~/Dropbox/Public/
GITHUB_PAGES_BRANCH=master
DEBUG ?= 0
ifeq ($(DEBUG), 1)
PELICANOPTS += -D
endif
RELATIVE ?= 0
ifeq ($(RELATIVE), 1)
PELICANOPTS += --relative-urls
endif
help:
@echo 'Makefile for a pelican Web site '
@echo ' '
@echo 'Usage: '
@echo ' make html (re)generate the web site '
@echo ' make clean remove the generated files '
@echo ' make regenerate regenerate files upon modification '
@echo ' make publish generate using production settings '
@echo ' make serve [PORT=8000] serve site at http://localhost:8000'
@echo ' make serve-global [SERVER=0.0.0.0] serve (as root) to $(SERVER):80 '
@echo ' make devserver [PORT=8000] start/restart develop_server.sh '
@echo ' make stopserver stop local server '
@echo ' make ssh_upload upload the web site via SSH '
@echo ' make rsync_upload upload the web site via rsync+ssh '
@echo ' make dropbox_upload upload the web site via Dropbox '
@echo ' make ftp_upload upload the web site via FTP '
@echo ' make s3_upload upload the web site via S3 '
@echo ' make cf_upload upload the web site via Cloud Files'
@echo ' make github upload the web site via gh-pages '
@echo ' '
@echo 'Set the DEBUG variable to 1 to enable debugging, e.g. make DEBUG=1 html '
@echo 'Set the RELATIVE variable to 1 to enable relative urls '
@echo ' '
html:
$(PELICAN) $(INPUTDIR) -o $(OUTPUTDIR) -s $(CONFFILE) $(PELICANOPTS)
clean:
[ ! -d $(OUTPUTDIR) ] || rm -rf $(OUTPUTDIR)
regenerate:
$(PELICAN) -r $(INPUTDIR) -o $(OUTPUTDIR) -s $(CONFFILE) $(PELICANOPTS)
serve:
ifdef PORT
cd $(OUTPUTDIR) && $(PY) -m pelican.server $(PORT)
else
cd $(OUTPUTDIR) && $(PY) -m pelican.server
endif
serve-global:
ifdef SERVER
cd $(OUTPUTDIR) && $(PY) -m pelican.server 80 $(SERVER)
else
cd $(OUTPUTDIR) && $(PY) -m pelican.server 80 0.0.0.0
endif
devserver:
ifdef PORT
$(BASEDIR)/develop_server.sh restart $(PORT)
else
$(BASEDIR)/develop_server.sh restart
endif
stopserver:
$(BASEDIR)/develop_server.sh stop
@echo 'Stopped Pelican and SimpleHTTPServer processes running in background.'
publish:
$(PELICAN) $(INPUTDIR) -o $(OUTPUTDIR) -s $(PUBLISHCONF) $(PELICANOPTS)
ssh_upload: publish
scp -P $(SSH_PORT) -r $(OUTPUTDIR)/* $(SSH_USER)@$(SSH_HOST):$(SSH_TARGET_DIR)
rsync_upload: publish
rsync -e "ssh -p $(SSH_PORT)" -P -rvzc --delete $(OUTPUTDIR)/ $(SSH_USER)@$(SSH_HOST):$(SSH_TARGET_DIR) --cvs-exclude
dropbox_upload: publish
cp -r $(OUTPUTDIR)/* $(DROPBOX_DIR)
ftp_upload: publish
lftp ftp://$(FTP_USER)@$(FTP_HOST) -e "mirror -R $(OUTPUTDIR) $(FTP_TARGET_DIR) ; quit"
s3_upload: publish
s3cmd sync $(OUTPUTDIR)/ s3://$(S3_BUCKET) --acl-public --delete-removed --guess-mime-type --no-mime-magic --no-preserve
cf_upload: publish
cd $(OUTPUTDIR) && swift -v -A https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0 -U $(CLOUDFILES_USERNAME) -K $(CLOUDFILES_API_KEY) upload -c $(CLOUDFILES_CONTAINER) .
github: publish
ghp-import -m "Generate Pelican site" -b $(GITHUB_PAGES_BRANCH) $(OUTPUTDIR)
git push origin $(GITHUB_PAGES_BRANCH)
.PHONY: html help clean regenerate serve serve-global devserver stopserver publish ssh_upload rsync_upload dropbox_upload ftp_upload s3_upload cf_upload github
## make newpost function
# https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/wiki/Tips-n-Tricks
PAGESDIR=$(INPUTDIR)/pages
DATE := $(shell date +'%Y-%m-%d %H\:%M\:%S')
SLUG := $(shell echo '${NAME}' | sed -e 's/[^[:alnum:]]/-/g' | tr -s '-' | tr A-Z a-z)
EXT ?= md
newpost:
ifdef NAME
echo "Title: $(NAME)" > $(INPUTDIR)/$(SLUG).$(EXT)
echo "Slug: $(SLUG)" >> $(INPUTDIR)/$(SLUG).$(EXT)
echo "Date: $(DATE)" >> $(INPUTDIR)/$(SLUG).$(EXT)
echo "" >> $(INPUTDIR)/$(SLUG).$(EXT)
echo "" >> $(INPUTDIR)/$(SLUG).$(EXT)
${EDITOR} ${INPUTDIR}/${SLUG}.${EXT} &
else
@echo 'Variable NAME is not defined.'
@echo 'Do make newpost NAME='"'"'Post Name'"'"
endif
editpost:
ifdef NAME
${EDITOR} ${INPUTDIR}/${SLUG}.${EXT} &
else
@echo 'Variable NAME is not defined.'
@echo 'Do make editpost NAME='"'"'Post Name'"'"
endif
newpage:
ifdef NAME
echo "Title: $(NAME)" > $(PAGESDIR)/$(SLUG).$(EXT)
echo "Slug: $(SLUG)" >> $(PAGESDIR)/$(SLUG).$(EXT)
echo "" >> $(PAGESDIR)/$(SLUG).$(EXT)
echo "" >> $(PAGESDIR)/$(SLUG).$(EXT)
${EDITOR} ${PAGESDIR}/${SLUG}.$(EXT)
else
@echo 'Variable NAME is not defined.'
@echo 'Do make newpage NAME='"'"'Page Name'"'"
endif
editpage:
ifdef NAME
${EDITOR} ${PAGESDIR}/${SLUG}.$(EXT)
else
@echo 'Variable NAME is not defined.'
@echo 'Do make editpage NAME='"'"'Page Name'"'"
endif
I'm on macOS Sierra. Very grateful for any pointers what's going on here.
The makefile rule creates the output file (in this case /Users/robinedwards/Documents/OSU/ghpages/content/test.md), and then it tries to invoke an editor on that file:
${EDITOR} ${INPUTDIR}/${SLUG}.${EXT} &
It's a little odd to have an editor invoked from a make recipe but whatever.
You don't have the environment variable EDITOR set in your environment, so that variable expands to the empty string and so make thinks you're trying to run a program named /Users/robinedwards/Documents/OSU/ghpages/content/test.md which is of course bogus.
You should do two things: first, edit your makefile to set the EDITOR variable if it's not already set:
EDITOR ?= emacs
or whatever editor you want... although based on this code it looks like it expects a graphical editor that will start in a new window, because it tries to put the editor in the background,
And second, you should set your environment variable EDITOR to your preferred editor; many UNIX programs expect that so they can start editors for you. Make sure you export it: export EDITOR=emacs or whatever.