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From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
To: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>,
	help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Execute Emacs command with root privilege.
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 11:46:44 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGP6POKPcdnu1L_NBGFQThesJ1gtq37j4Pbd0974VH=zcGo54g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGP6POLLVQP=0z_Ngr7m7GEppCO0c73xkEcGRp=6h60-wHuhdw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 4:26 PM Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 3:21 PM Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
> >
> > * Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> [2021-06-17 06:09]:
> > > In Emacs, when I issue the 'M-x TeX-auto-generate-global' command
> > > after loading AUCTeX, the followng error will be triggered:
> > >
> > > TeX-auto-store: Opening output file: Permission denied,
> > > /usr/local/var/auctex/amsppt.el
> > >
> > > Is it possible to enable the root privilege for executing the above
> > > command?
> >
> > It seems like auctex wrote or wanted to write something in system's
> > directory /usr/local/var/auctex/ but it could not.
> >
> > Instead of root privilege you should maybe verify that you have write
> > permissions to that directory.
> >
> > Does directory exist? Verify if it is there.
>
> You're right. The following commands will fix this problem:
>
> $ sudo mkdir  /usr/local/var/auctex
> $ sudo chown werner:werner /usr/local/var/auctex/

See <https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el/issues/800#issuecomment-862165317>
and
<https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el/issues/802#issuecomment-863726482>
for further discussions and more graceful solution.

Regards
-- 
Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Vocational University of Technology and Engineering
NO. 552 North Gangtie Road, Xingtai, China



      reply	other threads:[~2021-06-18  3:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-17  3:08 Execute Emacs command with root privilege Hongyi Zhao
2021-06-17  7:18 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-17  8:26   ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-06-18  3:46     ` Hongyi Zhao [this message]

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