<div>Thanks for that quick and helpful answer. </div> <div> </div> <div>The file permissions issue seems even stranger if nobody else has encountered it. </div> <div> </div> <div>My umask setting was 77, which I don't think is unusual; in any case, I don't see how it could cause some directories to lose x permisison (texmf, texmf-local, texmf-var), while leaving their sister directories with the correct permissions (bin, texmf-dist, texmf-doc). </div> <div> </div> <div>If it does happen, however, one is still left to make surmises about what the correct permissions are supposed to be.</div> <div>__</div> <div> </div> <DIV>Though I haven't installed anything much on Unix for quite a long time, this TeX Live installation now has been a pretty painless experience - so thanks go to all the people who've contributed to making it that way.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>----- Original Message ----- <DIV>From: "Karl Berry" <<A
href="mailto:karl@freefriends.org">karl@freefriends.org</A>></DIV> <DIV>To: <<A href="mailto:ajs_rdg@yahoo.co.uk">ajs_rdg@yahoo.co.uk</A>></DIV> <DIV>Cc: <<A href="mailto:tex-live@tug.org">tex-live@tug.org</A>></DIV> <DIV>Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:06 PM</DIV> <DIV>Subject: Re: [tex-live] TeX Live - Quick Install on Solaris -> Permission deniederrors</DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <div>> Andrew,<BR>> <BR>> Thanks for taking the time to write.<BR>> <BR>> drwxr--r-- 19 tex tex 4096 Jan 22 12:42 texmf<BR>> <BR>> I can't say why the directories ended up lacking the x bit. They aren't<BR>> that way in the original. Maybe you had an unusual umask setting?<BR>> <BR>> texmf-var was rw for everyone - surely that can't be right? <BR>> <BR>> The system texmf-var is used rather
like /tmp for TeX, so, yes -- the<BR>> idea being that any user on the system might end up running something<BR>> that causes a font (or whatever) to be autogenerated.<BR>> <BR>> There is an option to make it append-only, like /tmp typically is these days.<BR>> <BR>> % chmod -R go=u-w 2007<BR>> <BR>> That seems to have fixed it, and I hope it was correct, <BR>> <BR>> As long as you are the only user, seems plausible to me. You're going<BR>> to have to do something to add the x bit on the directories.<BR>> <BR>> if not, shouldn't the documentation cover it?<BR>> <BR>> This is the first time I recall this problem being reported.<BR>> <BR>> Best,<BR>> Karl<BR></div><p> 
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