On 23 Mar 2010, at 17:31, Jan Jakob Bornheim wrote:
Just to add to that, at least on my system, the sudo prefix is necessary because the regular user does not have write access to the folder /usr/local/texlive/ where the database is stored. I am pretty sure that is standard setup in Mac OS X. Thus, I said that not because I wanted to wreak havoc on your system, but rather to assure texhash has the desired effect. And yes, the password should be the same as the admin password.
Thats alright JJ. I'm OK with the concept of sudo, just didn't know what the command was. Unfortunately, as with all the other commands that are to do with LaTeX, unrecognised by my computer. And unfortunately again, my administrator password is not accepted as my root password and I recall a tech guy pulling his hair out trying to figure how to set up a root user for me. I think we gave up.