From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/36743 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: making formats troubled Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:21:40 +0200 Message-ID: <46F7E414.9090304@wxs.nl> References: <4042FC88-B2F7-4B17-A49A-3C9677D11796@science.uva.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190650942 31135 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2007 16:22:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:22:22 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Sep 24 18:22:17 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IZqh8-0003Fg-BZ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:22:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 607EF1FD08; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:21:59 +0200 (CEST) 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 30156-02; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:21:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D1D71FCEF; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:21:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 045541FCEF for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:21:47 +0200 (CEST) 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 30146-08-5 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:21:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D93A61FCE9 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:21:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 15617 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:21:42 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <4042FC88-B2F7-4B17-A49A-3C9677D11796@science.uva.nl> 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: 2.1.9 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:36743 Archived-At: Hans van der Meer wrote: > In This Way #12 of august 2007 I read on page 1: > > Since you update, make sure to remake the pdfTeX and XeTeX formats: > texexec --make --all --pdftex > > I updated to 2007-09-10 and then an error with message: > > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.5 (Web2C 7.5.6) (INITEX) > \write18 enabled. > (/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx) > entering extended mode > ! I can't write on file `cont-en.log'. > (Enter the null string to re-try, or to exit Default file > extension is `.log') > > Where is it that the file cont-en.log will be written? > And how can I change this location systematically (or can it be changed) > to a place under my home directory? > Maybe the problem is that I install my formats locally under a user name > not being super user or system administrator (just a simple security > precaution). > Is the texexec script assuming here write rights need not in generally > be granted to the script executing user? If so, can the script be adapted. > > By the way, cont-tfm.zip comes with script files not having a+x > executing rights. It is a bit of nuisance to change these everytime an > update comes along -- quite frequently thus. Is it possible to change this? not now, i use zip to make the files and windows bits are not unix bits; afaik, when a file is overwritten during unzip, the old bits are used; concerning fmt paths ... you can set the variable texformats to some value Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________