[OS X TeX] MacOSX-TeX Digest, Vol 49, Issue 4

[Herbert Schulz]

On Nov 6, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote:

> 
> On Nov 6, 2011, at 17:48 , Herbert Schulz wrote:
>> 
>> On Nov 6, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> [snip]
>>>> and let us know the output so we can see how the permissions and ownership are set?
>>> 
>>> ls -aFl /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
>>> 
>>> drwxr-xr-x  13 root    wheel   442 Nov  5 17:29 ./
>>> drwxr-xr-x   4 root    wheel   136 Nov  3 19:31 ../
>>> drwxr-xr-x   4 root    wheel   136 Jun 21 10:04 bibtex/
>>> drwxr-xr-x+  4 root    wheel   136 Nov  5 16:53 doc/
> [snip]
>> Hmmmm... for some reason there are additional permissions on the doc, source and tpm directories (the + sign at the end) and I don't know much about dealing with those but they shouldn't be there.
> 
> According to the man page for 'ls', the "+" sign means that there is extra information associated with the file/directory so decorated:
> 
>     If the file
>     or directory has extended attributes, the permissions field printed
>     by the -l option is followed by a '@' character.  Otherwise, if the
>     file or directory has extended security information (such as an
>     access control list), the permissions field printed by the -l option
>     is followed by a '+' character.
> 
> What that information is is left as an exercise for the reader :-}
> 
> It's not correct to say that the "+" should not be there, although it's hard to say why it would be there (e.g., there are no "+"s in my installation).
> 
> Justin


Howdy,

The access control list may be what is keeping him from opening those directories. Try running

ls -aFle /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local

to see the extra permissions. It is also possible to remove individual ACLs using the -a option of the chmod command.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)