Hopefully a simple latex question.

[Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>]

[05:00:24 heblatex]$ grep -A2 'override TEXMF' /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
% You can set an environment variable to override TEXMF if you're testing
% a new TeX tree, without changing anything else.
% 
[05:00:32 heblatex]$ 

Indeed I need to override TEXMF, or that is what I think:

[05:00:32 heblatex]$ TEXMF=/var/lib/texmf/:./:../hebfonts/ elatex hebrew.dtx
This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1)
I can't find the format file `elatex.efmt'!
[05:01:43 heblatex]$ 

But it is there:

[05:01:43 heblatex]$ locate elatex.efmt
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/elatex.efmt
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfelatex.efmt
[05:02:18 heblatex]$ 

and:

[05:02:53 heblatex]$ grep 'elatex.efmt' /var/lib/texmf/ls-R 
elatex.efmt
pdfelatex.efmt
[05:03:16 heblatex]$ 


Obviously I am doing something wrong, but I can not see that.
Any help is appreciated. 
-- 

	Shaul Karl <shaulka@bezeqint.net>

Hillel used to say: If I am not for myself who will be for me?
Yet, if I am for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when?
                                          (Ethics Of The Fathers 1:14)