All,

After trying below, my context is now broken.

david-arnolds-macbook-pro:en darnold$ texexec --help
-bash: /usr/texbin/texexec: Permission denied

I need help.

D.

On Sep 22, 2009, at 9:58 PM, David Arnold wrote:

> All,
>
> I am using Mactex Texlive 2008 on a Macbook pro.
>
> I did this:
>
> sudo ctxtools --updatecontext
>
> After reading http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV, I tried:
>
> sudo rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/context/ 
> current/ /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/
> sudo rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/bin/luatex/ 
> osx-universal/bin/luatex /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/
> Then I try:
> david-arnolds-macbook-pro:~ darnold$ sudo luatools --generate
> And I get:
> sudo: luatools: command not found
> Then I tried:
> david-arnolds-macbook-pro:~ darnold$ luatools --generate
> The result was:
> -bash: /usr/texbin/luatools: Permission denied
> Trying the context command yields the same result:
> david-arnolds-macbook-pro:~ darnold$ context --make
> Result:
> -bash: /usr/texbin/context: Permission denied
> So, there is some sort of permissions problem.
>
> We looked at this:
>
> david-arnolds-macbook-pro:texbin darnold$ cd /usr/texbin
> david-arnolds-macbook-pro:texbin darnold$ ls -l lua*
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel        6 May 13 17:46 lualatex -> luatex
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  8009384 Aug 13  2008 luatex
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       49 May 13 17:46 luatools -> ../../ 
> texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/luatools.lua
>
> And tried:
>
> david-arnolds-macbook-pro:texbin darnold$ ls -l ../../texmf-dist/ 
> scripts/context/lua/luatools.lua
> -rw-r--r--  1 33  33  222585 Aug 14 01:50 ../../texmf-dist/scripts/ 
> context/lua/luatools.lua
>
> And see that this file is not executable, so we try:
>
> david-arnolds-macbook-pro:texbin darnold$ sudo chmod +x ../../texmf- 
> dist/scripts/context/lua/luatools.lua
>
> Now the following works.
>
> david-arnolds-macbook-pro:texbin darnold$ luatools --generate
>
> But this piecemeal approach to making things executable might go on  
> and on. Can someone give a more universal cure? Is there an entire  
> directory of scripts that need to be executable?
>
> Thanks.
>
> David
>
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