Vincent Danjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: tetex-bin > Version: 3.0-15 > Severity: minor > > As my HOME is nfs mounted with root-squash enable (ie root cannot access > my HOME dir), I noticed that fmtutil-sys try to load my local texmf.cnf: > > [...] > Running fmtutil-sys. This may take some time. ... > /users/huron/danjean/texmf.cnf: Permission denied > /users/huron/danjean/texmf.cnf: Permission denied > /users/huron/danjean/texmf.cnf: Permission denied > /users/huron/danjean/texmf.cnf: Permission denied > /users/huron/danjean/texmf.cnf: Permission denied > /users/huron/danjean/texmf.cnf: Permission denied > /users/huron/danjean/texmf.cnf: Permission denied > /users/huron/danjean/texmf.cnf: Permission denied > Running updmap-sys. This may take some time. ... done. > > To avoid this, I need to do a "su -" (sudo and/or su without "-" option > is not sufficient).
Hm, I cannot reproduce this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su Password: riesling:/home/frank# echo $HOME /root riesling:/home/frank# kpsewhich --var-value=TEXMFHOME /root/texmf riesling:/home/frank# What am I (or you?) doing wrong? > Note that I think that with "su -", fmtutil-sys still try to look at the > user config file. However, as root's home is local, I do not have such > messages. > > Can't the fact that fmtutil-sys try to read the user config file lead > to bad system-wide config file (if the user config file is badly > written) ? I am not sure of that, hence the minor serverity. As long as HOME is root's real home directory, I don't think much bad should happen - or phrased differently, root shouldn't have a f'cked up texmf.cnf in their home directory. But I think we have already discussed this a while ago, does anybody in the team remember? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)