Dear All, I could not find any reference to this anywhere, so FYI or maybe for the FAQ:
Running Cygwin 1.5.7-1 on XP professional, any attempt to run latex produced an immediate permission error on texmf.cnf ('cannot access', if I recall well). I noticed that some of the files in the texmf subdir have a 'group' property of Users, other of 'None' (which is everyone, afaik). I logged in to XP as Admin and recursively allowed Users access to files/directories under texmf. This solved the problem. I think my problem was related to the fact that my login is domain controlled (ie not local to the machine). This renders me a member of the group Users, who don't have access to all files in the texmf directory. I am not exactly an expert on the confusing topic of NT vs unix vs cygwin permissions, so correct me if what I did is overkill. CHeers, Dirk __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/