From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jul 30 23:23:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA08252 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:23:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (ghpc8.ihf.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.90.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA08242 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:23:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.90.6]) by ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA09608; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 08:22:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from thomas@localhost) by ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.6/8.8.5) id IAA05490; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 08:22:45 +0200 (CEST) To: Nathan Dorfman Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: teTeX, dvips, and permissions References: <199707310316.XAA13593@limbo.senate.org> From: Thomas Gellekum Date: 31 Jul 1997 08:22:44 +0200 In-Reply-To: Nathan Dorfman's message of Wed, 30 Jul 1997 23:16:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <877me791vv.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.37/XEmacs 19.15 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nathan Dorfman 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