Hi Chris,
Is there a way to set the TEXINPUTS to recursively look in all directories
EXEPT /usr/latex/lost+found
Not that I can think of. However, you might be able to shut the
warnings up with another envvar setting:
TEX_HUSH=readable
(If any other directory ends up being unreadable, you won't hear about
it, but I don't imagine that's an overriding problem.)
HTH,
k