Hi George, Thanks for your suggestions. I'll look into it. Alan ----- Original Message ----- From: "George White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alan Tu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 05:50 Subject: Re: what is the font path variable?
> On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Alan Tu wrote: > > > Hi, I'm using teTeX on Linux. I've installed an Arabic extension to laTeX. > > My problem is, when I type > > dvips -o current.ps current.dvi > > on a console I get the right result. But when I put this command in my > > crontab, current.ps is not generated. > > This doesn't tell us much -- does dvips run with errors or is dvips > not found by the cron job? > > > My guess is that when jobs are executed with cron, the right path isn't set > > in the environment. So my question is, in what environment variable do I > > specify the path, and do I specify the path to the *.pk files in this > > variable? Thanks. > > For a typical installation all that is needed for dvips to work properly > is that the directory where it is located be listed in the PATH variable. > Depending on how you add extensions, you may be using some environment > variable(s), but in general it is best to make changes in the texmf.cnf > file. With linux, I prefer to leave the distribution untouched (so I can > just install the vendor's updates without affecting the local additions) > and put local changes under the /usr/local tree. You can use a custom > configuration by setting just one variable, e.g., > > TEXMFCNF=/usr/local/share/texmf-var/web2c > > You need to verify your configuration for the console and then ensure that > the cron command is run with the same setting. You should read the teTeX > documentation to learn how to manage teTeX's configuration. You can then > write some simple cron jobs to check the settings for that environment > and compare with what you got for the console. > > -- > George White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Halifax, Nova Scotia >
