[OS X TeX] Permissions

mark oilcan markoilcan at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 11 10:53:43 EST 2005


--- Holger Frauenrath <mail at frauenrath.com> wrote:

 
> email. Errh. Is it normal that /usr/local/bin and usr/local/share is 
> 
> owned by "administrator" (the local administrator account I used
> during  
> installation of MacOS X)? Could that be the problem?
> 

Seems unlikely.

> > matl-hci-d234:~ frauenrath_loc$ ls -l /usr/local/tetex
> > total 8
> > drwxr-xr-x   5 root  staff   170 11 Jan 10:00 bin
> > drwxr-xr-x   3 root  staff   102 11 Jan 10:00 include
> > drwxr-xr-x  17 root  staff   578 11 Jan 10:00 info
> > drwxr-xr-x   4 root  staff   136 11 Jan 10:00 lib
> > drwxr-xr-x   5 root  staff   170 11 Jan 10:00 man
> > drwxr-xr-x   9 root  staff   306 11 Jan 10:01 share
> > -rw-------   1 root  staff  3209 11 Jan 10:02 texmf.cnf
> 

That last line looks like it could be a problem. I'm sure someone will
correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe texmf.cnf should be world
readable. Do the following in Terminal:

cd /usr/local/tetex
sudo chmod +r texmf.cnf

Then see if the permissions for texmf.cnf are -rw-r--r--. If not then
do the following:

sudo chmod 644 texmf.cnf

Then check to see if tex works properly.

MarkA


		
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