From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Execute Emacs command with root privilege.
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 10:18:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YMr3RjZAqlsztCAb@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGP6POLP7S3c_CE_VtkwU4oqVemQeG1vjaRn4aCD2hzMR6G1Bw@mail.gmail.com>
* 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.
--
Jean
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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 [this message]
2021-06-17 8:26 ` Hongyi Zhao
2021-06-18 3:46 ` Hongyi Zhao
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