From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/38341 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Permission Policy Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:26:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <99F5377B-360E-4024-BCEB-FE528A60DB3F@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: ger.gmane.org 1198870098 2596 80.91.229.12 (28 Dec 2007 19:28:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:28:18 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Dec 28 20:28:30 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 1J8KsU-0000IW-D3 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:28:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04DD01FC43; Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:27:41 +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 30418-02-2; Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:26:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43D4C1FB98; Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:26:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A81561FB98 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:26:54 +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 30418-02 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:26:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.82]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36DB01FBB9 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:26:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: FROM adi-laptop.local (cpe-65-185-20-71.cinci.res.rr.com [65.185.20.71]) BY hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 47754DDC.2FCE9.15442 ; 28 Dec 2007 14:26:20 -0500 X-X-Sender: adityam@adi-laptop In-Reply-To: <99F5377B-360E-4024-BCEB-FE528A60DB3F@science.uva.nl> 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:38341 Archived-At: On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Hans van der Meer wrote: > I ran into trouble with "luatools --generate" > which does not seem to work with "sudo luatools --generate" > The seem applies to texmfstart and friends. What error message do you get? > Why this manco? I want to keep my system as safe as possible > especially regarding applications and stuff that takes a lot of time > installing (like the texlive system). > Therefore I have this in an administrator account (root:wheel). > Cannot ConTeXt cope with such a scheme? All it has to do is honor > sudo, apparently. sudo luatools --generate works here (Ubuntu Linux). AFAIU, luatools --generate only reads the relevant files from $TEXMF and writes details to $TEXMFCACHE. If all directories in $TEXMF are readable by normal user (should be) and $TEXMFCACHE is writable by normal user (should be), then you do not even need a sudo. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________