[Wikitex-l] [Fwd: Error messages] SELinux/web2c LaTeX permissions issues in WikiTeX <amsmath>

[Michael Carlisle]

Trying to get WikiTeX to run under Red Hat/SELinux using web2c's 
implementation of LaTeX gave the errors below (sorry for the length).  
Does someone understand the permissions issues we're having here?  (I've 
offset the errors for easier viewing... at the top and bottom.)  Is this 
even a WikiTeX permissions issue, or does it look like a deeper LaTeX 
permissions issue?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Mike Carlisle
Mathematics Dept.
CUNY Graduate Center


-------- Original Message --------

WikiTeX: latex reported a failure, namely:

This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)

*        /usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt: Permission denied
        /usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt: Permission denied
*
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
running `tex -ini   -jobname=latex -progname=latex latex.ini' ...
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5) (INITEX)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/latex.ini
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/texsys.cfg)
./texsys.aux found


\@currdir set to: ./.


Assuming \openin and \input
have the same search path.


Defining UNIX/DOS style filename parser.

catcodes, registers, compatibility for TeX 2,  parameters,
LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
hacks, control, par, spacing, files, font encodings, lengths,
====================================

Local config file fonttext.cfg used

====================================
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/fonttext.cfg
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fonttext.ltx
=== Don't modify this file, use a .cfg file instead ===

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omlenc.def)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ot1enc.def)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omsenc.def)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1cmr.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ot1cmr.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ot1cmss.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ot1cmtt.fd)))
====================================

Local config file fontmath.cfg used

====================================
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/fontmath.cfg
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontmath.ltx
=== Don't modify this file, use a .cfg file instead ===

(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omlcmm.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omscmsy.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/omxcmex.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ucmr.fd)))
====================================

Local config file preload.cfg used

=====================================
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/preload.cfg
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/preload.ltx)) page nos., x-ref, 
environments,
center, verbatim, math definitions, boxes, title, sectioning, contents,
floats, footnotes, index, bibliography, output,
===========================================
Local configuration file hyphen.cfg used
===========================================
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/hyphen.cfg
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/frhyph.tex
frhyph.tex - French hyphenation patterns (V2.11) <2002/01/16>)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/dehypht.tex
German Traditional Hyphenation Patterns `dehypht' Version 3.2a <1999/03/03>
(Formerly known under the name `ghyph31' and `ghyphen'.))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/dehyphn.tex
New German Hyphenation Patterns `dehyphn' Rev.31 <2001-05-07> (WaS))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/zerohyph.tex))
=================================
Applying patch file ltpatch.ltx
=================================
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ltpatch.ltx)
 ) )
Beginning to dump on file latex.fmt
 (format=latex 2006.1.24)
4153 strings of total length 54052
43633 memory locations dumped; current usage is 144&41698
3034 multiletter control sequences
\font\nullfont=nullfont
\font\OMX/cmex/m/n/10=cmex10
\font\tenln=line10
\font\tenlnw=linew10
\font\tencirc=lcircle10
\font\tencircw=lcirclew10
\font\OT1/cmr/m/n/5=cmr5
\font\OT1/cmr/m/n/7=cmr7
\font\OT1/cmr/m/n/10=cmr10
\font\OML/cmm/m/it/5=cmmi5
\font\OML/cmm/m/it/7=cmmi7
\font\OML/cmm/m/it/10=cmmi10
\font\OMS/cmsy/m/n/5=cmsy5
\font\OMS/cmsy/m/n/7=cmsy7
\font\OMS/cmsy/m/n/10=cmsy10
3633 words of font info for 14 preloaded fonts
14 hyphenation exceptions
Hyphenation trie of length 23210 has 711 ops out of 35111
  235 for language 3
  207 for language 2
  88 for language 1
  181 for language 0
*No pages of output.
Transcript written on latex.log.
rm: cannot remove `/usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.log': Permission denied
mv: cannot stat `/usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.log': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `/usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt': Permission denied
mv: cannot stat `/usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt': Permission denied
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexupd: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt not a 
file.
I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!*

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