Date: 31 Jul 1997 08:22:44 +0200 From: Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de> To: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: teTeX, dvips, and permissions Message-ID: <877me791vv.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: Nathan Dorfman's message of Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:16:18 -0400 (EDT) References: <199707310316.XAA13593@limbo.senate.org>
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Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> writes:
> When running dvips as installed by the teTeX port, I get these errors:
> /usr/local/bin/MakeTeXmkdir: could not create directory /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour
> MakeTeXPK: could not mkdir /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm.
> dvips: Font cmcsc10 not found, characters will be left blank.
> Is it safe to suid-root dvips to solve the problem? Or is it MakeTeXmkdir? Or
> metafont? Or must I dvips all my TeX and LaTeX files as root?
As mentioned in the install-note you should probably `chmod 1777' all
directories below /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts
(`find /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts -type d -exec chmod 1777 {} \;').
See also the documentation in /usr/local/share/texmf/doc/tetex.
tg
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