Re: Help with LaTeX permissions

["Susan G. Kleinmann" <sgk@sgk.tiac.net>]

Hi Pedro --
You said:
> whe I try dvips (or xdvi) I get the following:
> 
> [.... Text on font metrics generation deleted]
> 
> Font metrics written on cmr10.tfm.
> Output written on cmr10.300gf (128 characters, 13184 bytes).
> Transcript written on cmr10.log.
> mkdir: cannot make directory `/var/spool/texmf/fonts/pk/deskjet':
> Permission denied
> chmod: /var/spool/texmf/fonts/pk/deskjet: No such file or directory

It sounds as if you don't have permissions set right in /var/spool/texmf/fonts.
When I execute:
    ls -l /var/spool/texmf/fonts/  
I get:

total 3
drwxrwxrwt   5 root     root         1024 Oct 15 17:49 pk/
drwxrwxrwt   2 root     root         1024 Mar 28  1996 source/
drwxrwxrwt   2 root     root         1024 Oct 13 19:42 tfm/

so that files and directories I need within pk can be created and owned
by user 'sgk', e.g., 

    ls -l /var/spool/texmf/fonts/pk 
yields:

-rw-r--r--   1 sgk      1000         5020 Oct 15 17:49 cmsy7.300pk
-rw-r--r--   1 sgk      1000         6636 Oct 15 17:49 cmti10.300pk
drwxrwxrwx   2 sgk      1000         1024 Mar 29  1996 deskjet/
drwxrwxrwx   2 sgk      1000         2048 Oct 19 09:23 ljfour/
drwxrwxrwx   2 sgk      1000         1024 Oct 27 17:17 toshiba/
...


HTH,
Susan Kleinmann

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