[OS X TeX] Permission problems in texmf.local

[Michael S. Hanson]

On Apr 13, 2004, at 12:24 AM, Ross Moore wrote:

> On 13/04/2004, at 1:47 PM, Michael S. Hanson wrote:
>
>> % kpsewhich fourier
>> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/latex/fourier: Permission 
>> denied
>
> With this command you have tried to run the 'fourier' directory.
> Commands that you may have meant to use are:
>
>    kpsewhich fourier.sty
> or
>    ls `kpsewhich fourier`

	Yes, I originally typed the former;  when I went back to re-create my 
steps for the e-mail, I forgot the .sty.  The latter syntax is useful 
and new to me.  Thanks.


>> % ls -lF /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/
>> total 16
>> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  admin   102 14 Sep  2003 doc/
>> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  admin   102 15 Jul  2003 dvipdfm/
>> drwxr--r--   4 root  admin   136 14 Sep  2003 dvips/
>> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  admin   102 21 Jan  2003 etex/
>> drwxr--r--   6 root  admin   204 14 Sep  2003 fonts/
>> -rw-r--r--   1 root  admin  7923 30 Mar 14:29 ls-R
>> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  admin   102 21 Jan  2003 pdftex/
>> drwxr--r--   5 root  admin   170 18 Sep  2003 tex/
>> drwxr-xr-x  44 root  admin  1496 30 Mar 14:29 web2c/
>> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  admin   102 21 Jan  2003 xdvi/
>
> Hmm; that doesn't look right.
> Looks like something happened in Sept 2003.

	Probably the last time I ran the i-Installer.  But everything worked 
on this machine until the March 30th update....


> It's probably best to just list the directories explicitly:
>    sudo chmod a+x tex fonts dvips
> then look at the contents of each of these directories to see whether
> there are further changes needed.

	Thanks, I did that.  A few subdirectories needed to be changed as 
well.  But here is the odd part:  I *still* could not get the Fourier 
fonts to work, because the permissions on a particular file in 
/usr/local/share/teTeXtex/latex/fourier/ were incorrect:

-rwx--x--x   1 root  admin    234  7 Sep  2003 fmxfutm.fd*

A 'sudo chmod a+r fmxfutm.fd' fixed that, and I now have restored the 
functionality of the Fourier fonts.  *whew*


>> 	2. What happened?
>
> Sorry, I cannot speculate on what may have caused the changes.

	That's OK -- your feedback was really helpful, Ross.  Thanks again!  
If anyone else has an idea what went wrong, I'd love to hear it....

                                         -- Mike

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