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Re: Error
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robin Stephenson)
Fri Nov 29 09:54:56 1996
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From: Robin Stephenson <r.stephenson@elsevier.co.uk>
Date: 29 Nov 1996 14:49:07 +0000
In-Reply-To: Michael Ghens's message of Fri, 29 Nov 1996 06:36:52 -0800 (PST)
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>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Ghens <michael@spconnect.com> wrote:
Michael> I keep on getting this error, any ideas?
Yes.
[...]
Michael> error: lstat() of directory /var/lib/texmf failed: No such
Michael> file or directory
As the message says, the problem is that /var/lib/texmf doesn't exist.
Either comment out the line in crontab that's doing this (in
/etc/crontab) or just create the (empty) directory. I presume that
it'll go away if you install (La)TeX, in which case you should
reinstate the line in /etc/crontab.
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