From: Pekka Janhunen <Pekka.Janhunen@fmi.fi> Subject: TeX & doc only work for Root Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 10:34:52 GMT
hi linuxers,
If I run xdvi, dvips or doc as root, everything works just fine. When I
try
as non-root, xdvi and dvips work in principle, but they try to call
Metafont
to generate some missing fonts every time. It takes about half a minute
during
which the screen is filled with Metafont messages, after which the new
window
correctly appears. The new font data never get installed because of
permission restrictions.
For doc, if I start it as non-root, only the first few menu entries are
there. I don't know whether this is related to the xdvi&dvips problem.
What's going on? I have checked the permissions, run /etc/sysperms and
checked the the environment is the same for root and other users but
nothing
seems to help. I use SLS .99p2. I have a 486-33 + ATID disk + Trident8900.
Please answer (also) by email:
Pekka.Janhunen@fmi.fi