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