[tex-live] tlmgr: permissions on /tmp/texlive.tlpdb.lzma

[Victor Ivrii]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Dr. Clea F. Rees <cfrees at imapmail.org> wrote:
> What role does /tmp/texlive.tlpdb.lzma play?
>
> The reason I ask is that if I run tlmgr with root privileges e.g. to do
> "tlmgr update --all" and later run it without e.g. to do "tlmgr update
> --list" or "tlmgr list", I get a message complaining that permissions
> are denied for /tmp/texlive.tlpdb.lzma. The permissions are 0644 with
> ownership root:wheel. I assume that tlmgr wants to replace
> /tmp/texlive.tlpdb.lzma or something similar rather than just reading
> it.


This happens when you run  %tlmgr ...
after
%sudo tlmgr

obviously you as you do not have the same privileges as a root

>
> The commands seem to work anyway - I still get listings - but I'm
> wondering if it would prevent me from getting updated listings, for
> example, if tlmgr will be forced to rely on a stale copy of
> /tmp/texlive.tlpdb.lzma because it cannot be replaced.
>
> I don't have a clue what /tmp/texlive.tlpdb.lzma does, though, so the
> concern could be entirely misguided and the error purely cosmetic.
>
> Thanks,
> cfr
>



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