Re: texexec & teTeX

2002-05-27 Thread Reinhard Kotucha
> "Idris" == Idris S Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > it. Here is some more strange behavior: > If I'm in root and do texexec, everything works fine. If I'm in > my user account and do texexec, everything works fine. > If I su to my home directory from root (

Re: texexec & teTeX

2002-05-27 Thread Thomas Esser
> If I su to my home directory from root (or su to root from my home dir), then > texexec gives the error Don't do su userid Better do su - userid That su without "-" just gives you a shell which initialy inheritares environment variables from the root shell. E.g. HOME will not be set to

Re: texexec & teTeX

2002-05-27 Thread David Kastrup
Idris S Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is the texexec.pl script executable? (chmod +x). > > Just did this. > > >If you specify the > > complete path name (/usr/TeX/bin/i386-linux/texexec.pl), does it run? > > Ok, I got it working, though I'm not sure exactly what did it. Here is some

Re: texexec & teTeX

2002-05-27 Thread Idris S Hamid
> Is the texexec.pl script executable? (chmod +x). Just did this. >If you specify the > complete path name (/usr/TeX/bin/i386-linux/texexec.pl), does it run? Ok, I got it working, though I'm not sure exactly what did it. Here is some more strange behavior: If I'm in root and do texexec, eve