[OS X TeX] TeXShop and files on a network

[William Adams]

On Oct 4, 2006, at 10:26 PM, Stephen Moye wrote:

> What I am saying is that we have TeX documents on a server. One person
> might create the original document, and another person might make  
> corrections
> on that file. When the first person, the one who created the file,
> closes that file and quits TeXShop, the second person is not able  
> to open and TeX the file because
> TeX(Shop) complains that the log file is in use. We don't want to have
> multiple versions of the file in multiple places at the same time.  
> We put the files
> on the server and edit them there to avoid the problems of version  
> control. The question is, why does
> TeXShop think that the log file is still in use when the person who  
> is editing
> the file tries to TeX it.
>
> Could it be a permissions problem? Could it be that the person who  
> is TeXing
> the file 'owns' the log file so that other users do not have access  
> to it? But
> that would, I should have thought, have given a different error.
>
> Puzzled.

I believe that Mac OS X programs will keep a lock on a file until  
they quit unless specifically closed. Try this as a test:

  - start TeXshop on one machine, make a new file on the server,  
typeset it, then close the file, leaving TeXshop running
  - open the file on a different machine, make a change, then try to  
typeset it.
  - if the file doesn't typset, quit TeXshop on the first machine and  
try again --- if it works then, it seems to me this is probably a  
change which needs to be made in TeXshop (to work around a Cocoa  
framework bug?)

Failing that, the issue may be something related to group membership  
on your fileserver --- what sort is it and how do you have groups set  
up? IME, everyone belonging to a particular group can sometimes  
influence access to files --- is it all files all the time, or just a  
certain subset under as-yet undefined conditions?

William

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William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications



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