On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Robert Blackstone wrote:

Hi Mojca,

Thank you for your help. My problem is not over though, and a new problem has turned up.

The first steps you described, In NTG-context Digest Vol 51, issue 81, message 8, worked, that is, with sudo.

However, the last four commands, "texexec --make --all", "texexec --make --xtx --all", "luatools --generate" and "context --make", returned the usual error messages (with and without sudo and and issued from any directory along the path "/usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/universal-darwin"):

RBs-Powerbook:/ robert$ sudo texexec --make --all

sudo: texexec: command not found

RBs-Powerbook:/ robert$ sudo texexec --make --xtx --all

sudo: texexec: command not found

RBs-Powerbook:/ robert$ sudo luatools --generate

LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file

LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file

LuaTools | no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known)

LuaTools |

LuaTools | runtime: 0.009 seconds

RBs-Powerbook:/ robert$ sudo context --make

sudo: context: command not found

In addition another problem has turned up: I cannot use Context anymore, with TeXlive-2008 and TeXshop. When typesetting a file I get the following message:

"/Users/robert/Library/TeXShop/Engines/context.engine: line 3: /usr/texbin/texmfstart: Permission denied"

Line 3 of context.engine reads: texmfstart texexec --pdf --passon="-synctex=1" "$1"

I already changed permissions of file texmfstart.rb to: Owner robert, Read & Write. It didn't help.

When I choose TeXlive-2007 ConTeXt works OK.

So, what could I do about these two problems (which may be unconnected)?

Thanks in advance.

Robert Blackstone

Whoooops. Apparently "sudo" (root) user doesn't know about TeXLive paths, and you might not have sufficient rights to modify the files yourself. Are you the only user of your computer? Who's currently the owner of /usr/local/texlive? I would do the following (though it's *not* a general recipe): sudo chown -R yourname:yourgroup /usr/local/texlive (may take a while) and then repeat the steps without sudo. Possibly you want to change the owner back to root afterwards. rsync with sudo indeed behaves a bit weird, and without sudo you are probably not able to overwrite those files. Mojca PS: Honestly, I'm also not sure if "texexec --make" will use the right directory to store formats (if you update TL later, it might shield the system formats in some cases). Maybe I was using sudo fmtutil-sys --byfmt cont-en or sudo fmtutil-sys --all when generating MKII the formats (instead of texexec --make). But I don't remember.