[tex-live] TeX Live 2011 on Solaris Intel: three problems

Nelson H. F. Beebe beebe at math.utah.edu
Tue May 31 03:07:53 CEST 2011


Norbert Preining asks:

>> Could it be that 
>>         /usr/local/bin
>> is NOT in the PATH when a cron job is run? I guess that is the reason.

Indeed, that is the case.  The question is, should TeX Live binaries
be referring to executables outside /bin, /usr/bin, and TeX Live's
own bin/platform tree?  If so, that seems a recipe for breaking at
end-user sites.

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