Hi Gunnar, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote on 17.10.2004:
>Jan Eden wrote: >>The script manages to write data to my output file if I created it >>first and chmodded it to 666, but fails otherwise. >> >>This is because the script is run by the web user, of course. Is >>there a more or less secure way to allow the script to >> >>a) create / write to a file b) apply pdflatex to that file (i.e. >>create a pdf file from the .tex source) > >You can give the directory in which the file will be located 0777 >permissions. Once the file has been created by the script, you can >change the directory permissions to e.g. 0755. > >>c) open the resulting pdf file (using the open function in OS X) > >To allow somebody but the web server to open a script created file >for reading, have the script give it 0644 permissions. > >It sounds as if you need to read up on the Unix/Linux permissions >system. Hrm. I do know about the permissions system. But I made a stupid mistake anyway. pdflatex is not in the web server user's path, so the script did not find it. I used the absolute path to pdflatex now, and got a result. Thanks, Jan -- There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. - Jeremy S. Anderson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
