Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/i386-linux/mtxrun:9016: attempt to index
> global 'today' (a function value)

There is a small, but fatal bug in the script. You have to open the
mtxrun script in a text editor and fix line 9016 so it says:

  today = os.date('*t')