On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
>
> *every* time I print something now, I get lots of messages like these:
>
> mktexpk: /var/spool/texmf/pk/ljfour/jknappen/ec/ectt1000.600pk already exists.
> /usr/lib/texmf/web2c/mktexupd: /var/spool/texmf/ls-R unwritable.
> [stuff deleted]
> this file is 644. Should it be something else??
If you are not the owner of the file, it should be 666. I'm guessing it is
owned by root, so that you as a regular user cannot write to it. The fonts
have already been generated by someone, but they don't exist in teTeX's
ls-R file, and the ls-R file can't be updated to reflect their existence -
thus the error message. Change the permission (chmod 0666 ls-R) and your
warnings should go away. (TeX will also not try to regenerate the fonts
again either, so you definitely want to do this. You might also want to
look at your crontab files to make sure the pk fonts aren't deleted once a
week - this was happening to me under various flavors of RedHat. Look in
/etc/cron.weekly or something like that and look for a reference to pk
files.)
Mike
