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