[tex-live] umask message

jfbu jfbu at free.fr
Wed Oct 2 22:52:10 CEST 2013


Le 2 oct. 2013 à 22:11, "Maxwell, Adam R" <adam.maxwell at pnnl.gov> a écrit :

> 
> On Oct 2, 2013, at 09:16, jfbu <jfbu at free.fr> wrote:
> 
>> on my system I promoted myself to be the owner of all
>> the sub-hierarchies in /usr/local/texlive/
>> (i.e 2013/ and texmf-local/)
>> rather than root. 
> 
> Good. I recommend this, whenever possible, as it avoids running
> my code and tlmgr code as root.
> 
>> I guess then the alert issued by TLU in case of umask 0022
>> (which is also my case) would not be necessary?
> 
> You shouldn't see an alert for 0022 umask in the version I
> released this morning (US/Pacific time). I made a mistake
> in testing the umask.
> 
> thanks,
> Adam

Hi Adam, I installed the latest version 1.16 and I can
confirm the alert is gone, indeed,
(but I had already clicked on "do not show up again" in 1.15 ... )

btw, a great many thanks for TeX Live Utility,

can't imagine how it would be without it...
Jean-François




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