Re: Version 3.23 of Lout now re-installed

[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 13:13:53 +0200, Mike Dowling wrote:

> complains that /usr/local/share/lout/data/texfonts.lix and
> /usr/local/share/lout/data/texfonts.li don't exist.  Once created
> and made world readable and world writable, my experience was that,
> after a single run of lout, I could then remove the world
> writability.
> 
> Is this behaviour deliberate?

Yes.  For a database file ('.ld') Lout needs to build an index file
('.li', the '.lix' is a working copy that is renamed to '.li' at the
end of the run).

For standard databases this is done during init run and when Lout is
installed the indices are installed as well.

One option when installing teq is to add appropriate @SysDatabase line
to include/init and make an init run as root.  This will build an
index file for mere mortals to use.


> My suspicion is that were I to make more complex use of lout-teq,
> then I would once again have to make these files world writable

No, unless you change the database file.  This also holds for any
system database.

SY, Uwe
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