[OS X TeX] problem with texdoc

[Herbert Schulz]

On Dec 27, 2010, at 2:08 AM, Alain Matthes wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Sorry for posting the message twice, but I don't see the first one
> _ perhaps we have too much snow in Paris :) _
> 
> I try yesterday $ texdoc texbytopic    
> 
> texbytopic.pdf is opened but I get
> 
> texdoc warning: Failed to create cache file in /Users/ego/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var/texdoc/cache-tlpdb.lua:
> texdoc warning: Permission denied.
> 
> 
> $  kpsexpand '$TEXMFVAR'   gives 
> /Users/ego/Library/texlive/2010/texmf-var
> 
> but the permissions for the texlive folder and all  the subfolders are
> 
> owner root
> group staff
> 
> reading and writing for system
> forbidden access for everyone
> 
> I can repair the problem but I don't know what bad action I made
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Alain Matthes

Howdy,

It's owned by me with group wheel (but that shouldn't make a difference) on my system. Did you perhaps run something like `sudo updmap` (not updmap-sys) or `sudo fmutil` (not fmtutil-sys) at some point? If that folder structure wasn't already created by then it might get created with root as owner.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)