From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Execute Emacs command with root privilege. Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 10:18:30 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13958"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.7+183 (3d24855) (2021-05-28) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Hongyi Zhao Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 17 09:22:25 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ltmM1-0003G2-Hd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:22:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60608 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ltmM0-0007RK-I1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2021 03:22:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58262) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ltmLT-0007P7-5L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2021 03:21:47 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:52037) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ltmLR-0008Hc-93 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2021 03:21:46 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.0.23]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000076066.0000000060CAF806.00002BEA; Thu, 17 Jun 2021 00:21:42 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Hongyi Zhao , help-gnu-emacs Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -3 X-Spam_score: -0.4 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB=1.5, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:130956 Archived-At: * Hongyi Zhao [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 Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/