From: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) Subject: Re: SLS 1.03: Installation and configuration [with fixes] (long) Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1993 16:33:47 GMT
iain.lea@anl433.erlm.siemens.de (Iain Lea) writes:
>This article lists the problems I encountered installing and
>configuring SLS 1.03 and the fixes I made (when possible).
>o Tcsh shell should be included as many sites use it over there
> whole network of machines to allow an uniform set of login
> procedures.
> Configuration (and fixing) time - 6-7 hours
What fixes, am I using tcsh 6.03 with bugs ? Hmm, it works for me
without any fixes.
>o TeX package was partly installed with wrong permissions and unknown
> user and group.
> FIX. ??? Normal user cannot get METAFONT to write the needed fonts ???
Make MakeTeXPK suid root if you did an chown -R root.root on all tex files.
Otherwise create an new user tex and do an chown -R tex.root /usr/TeX
and then make MakeTeXPK suid tex ...
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