[tex-live] mktexlsr and file owner

Vladimir Volovich vvv at vsu.ru
Mon Sep 19 23:50:59 CEST 2005


"AJ" == Arne Jørgensen writes:

 AJ> Hi, I often do a

 AJ>   sudo mktexlsr

 AJ> with the side effect that my ~/texmf/ls-R is now owned by root
 AJ> instead of my own user.

 AJ> Is there a reason to not update the user id and group id of the
 AJ> ls-R files to their original values (when running mktexlsr as
 AJ> root)?

what is the reason to run "sudo mktexlsr" in the first place?

Best,
v.



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