[tex-live] TeX Live - Quick Install on Solaris -> Permission denied errors

[Andrew Smith]

On Solaris, I followed the 'TeX Live - Quick Install' procedure (not running the installation as root)
  http://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html
   
  using the zipped ISO image 
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/Images/texlive-live.iso.zip
   
  Testing TeX as another user got numerous Permission denied errors, something like: 
   
  % latex sample2e.tex
/opt/pkg_0/tex/texlive/2007/texmf-local/web2c/texmf.cnf: Permission denied
/opt/pkg_0/tex/texlive/2007/texmf-var/ls-R: Permission denied
/opt/pkg_0/tex/texlive/2007/texmf-var/ls-r: Permission denied
/opt/pkg_0/tex/texlive/2007/texmf-var/aliases: Permission denied
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
/opt/pkg_0/tex/texlive/2007/texmf-local/web2c/texmf.cnf: Permission denied
/opt/pkg_0/tex/texlive/2007/texmf-var/ls-R: Permission denied
/opt/pkg_0/tex/texlive/2007/texmf-var/ls-r: Permission denied
/opt/pkg_0/tex/texlive/2007/texmf-var/aliases: Permission denied
...
   
  Permissions look odd on some of the installed directories (below). 
  texmf and texmf lacked x permission for general users. 
  texmf-var was rw for everyone - surely that can't be right? 
   
  % ls -l
total 48
drwxr-xr-x   3 tex      tex         4096 Jan 22 11:48 bin
drwxr--r--  19 tex      tex         4096 Jan 22 12:42 texmf
drwxr-xr-x  18 tex      tex         4096 Jan 22 12:42 texmf-dist
drwxr-xr-x   5 tex      tex         4096 Jan 22 11:49 texmf-doc
drwxr--r--   8 tex      tex         4096 Jan 22 12:42 texmf-local
drwxrw-rw-   8 tex      tex         4096 Jan 22 12:42 texmf-var
% 
   
  In the end, I just did this (in the texlive installation directory): 
   
  % chmod -R go=u-w 2007
   
  That seems to have fixed it, and I hope it was correct, 
   
  But shouldn't the install script take care of this - and if not, shouldn't the documentation cover it? 

       
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