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

[Herbert Schulz]

On Nov 6, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:

> On 11/6/11 3:00 PM, macosx-tex-request at email.esm.psu.edu wrote:
>> Message: 7
>> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 20:16:17 -0500
>> From: Herbert Schulz<herbs at wideopenwest.com>
>> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] how open directories in
>> 	/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
>> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List<macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu>
>> Message-ID:<E40BE52B-B92B-4056-B3E2-AD1B203D0863 at wideopenwest.com>
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>> 
>> On Nov 5, 2011, at 4:18 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>> 
>>> >  Instructions athttp://www.pctex.com/kb/74.html  say to put files for the PCTeX MathTimePro II and Lucida fonts into /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local. But some of the subdirectories of the latter simply will not open in finder -- even after I change their permissions to make them readable and writeable by me (and I have administrator privileges).
>>> >
>>> >  This is the case, e.g., with the doc and source subdirectories.
>>> >
>>> >  Is there some way -- other than having to use long commands in Terminal to see what's there and to copy files to there?
>>> >
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> Could you run
>> 
>> ls -aFl /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local
>> 
>> 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/
> drwxr-xr-x   5 root    wheel   170 Nov  5 16:55 dvips/
> drwxr-xr-x   8 root    wheel   272 Nov  5 16:10 fonts/
> drwxr-xr-x   3 murray  wheel   102 Nov  5 16:05 latex/
> -rw-r--r--   1 root    wheel  8948 Nov  5 17:29 ls-R
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root    wheel   102 Jun 21 10:04 metapost/
> drwxr-xr-x+  4 root    wheel   136 Nov  5 16:59 source/
> drwxr-xr-x   5 root    wheel   170 Nov  5 16:12 tex/
> drwxr-xr-x+  2 root    wheel    68 Nov  5 16:07 tpm/
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel    68 Jun 21 10:04 web2c/
> 
> -- 
> Murray Eisenberg                     murray at math.umass.edu
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Howdy,

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. I suspect that is what is giving rise to the problem you are experiencing with accessing at least two of those directories.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)