From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24029 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt "live" Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:17:53 +0100 Message-ID: <439065A1.6020102@wxs.nl> References: <439054B2.7040003@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133537030 21504 80.91.229.2 (2 Dec 2005 15:23:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 15:23:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Dec 02 16:23:48 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EiChD-0004aQ-My for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:19:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 733F9128F8; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:19:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14715-04-14; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:19:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E4E9128E1; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:19:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A0C3128E1 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:19:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14715-04-13 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:19:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from controller-1 (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04212128D2 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:19:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 6048 for multiple; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:23:14 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:24029 Archived-At: VnPenguin wrote: >On 12/2/05, Hans Hagen wrote: > > >>it has to do with the tex distribution being configured as too paranoid >>which means no writing >> >>can you try the --notparanoid switch? >> >> >> > >Just added this option to texexec, but it does not help. >The problem is still there. > > i remember sucn problems but forgot what the trick was; you can only sort out such things when you have access to the machine; the problem is in kpse sitting in between as patrick says, the problem is that - with immediate write 18 one can launch any program, the only way out of this is when one can only run scripts within the tree, but i don't see that happen (hard to get aggreement upon) - a more clever paranoid mode, where expanded paths are taken into account; for instance, if paranoid means that ../blabla or blabla.bla are looked at, it may mean that the period results in blocking, while actually the expanded path may still be within the tree actually, in the minimal distribution, such thinsg are taken care of: % resource paths, can be used in paranoid situations (can be env vars); there you find: TXRESOURCES=rubish MPRESOURCES=$TXRESOURCES MFRESOURCES=$MPRESOURCES % some extra paths for development trees (can be env vars) CTXDEVTXPATH=rubish CTXDEVMPPATH=rubish CTXDEVMFPATH=rubish TEXINPUTS.context = .;{$TXRESOURCES}//;{$CTXDEVTXPATH}//;$TEXMF/{pdftex,pdfetex,etex,xetex,omega,tex}/{context,plain,generic,}// MPINPUTS = .;{$MFRESOURCES}//;{$CTXDEVMPPATH}//;$TEXMF/metapost/{context,base,}// MFINPUTS = .;{$MPRESOURCES}//;{$CTXDEVMFPATH}//;$TEXMF/metafont/{context,base,}//;{$TEXMF/fonts,$VARTEXFONTS}/source// so, one can set the TXRESOURCE path (using texexec) and out of a sudden that path (which may lay outside the tree) is acceptable Hans