[OS X TeX] Problem with TeXLive Utility

John Burt burt at brandeis.edu
Fri Jun 16 09:26:17 EDT 2017


TexLive Utility is working fine. I don't know what changed my permissions.
It wasn't anything I did on purpose. I didn't change my umask.  And it
returns 0022.

I can't tell you how grateful I am for all your help!
John

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
wrote:

>
> > On Jun 16, 2017, at 8:11 AM, John Burt <burt at brandeis.edu> wrote:
> >
> > And now texdoc runs again. Thank you very much!
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 9:10 AM, John Burt <burt at brandeis.edu> wrote:
> > Thanks once again:
> >
> > Here is what it runs:
> >
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  staff  11598536 Jun 15 09:13
> /usr/local/texlive/2017/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
>
> Howdy,
>
> Has you problem with TeX Live Utility been fixed also?
>
> The real problem is finding out what changed those permissions? As Adam
> Maxwell asked, did you change your umask? If so there may be (many) other
> files with permissions problems. Please run
>
> umask
>
> and let us know if it doesn't return 0022.
>
> Here's a question for Adam Maxwell: do file permissions get transmitted
> along with the file when updating? I.e., could there have been a
> permissions problem when updating? I didn't run into a problem and I update
> pretty much daily.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
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