[freeside] pslatex error on Solaris 8

[Shivkumar]

further to that,
my httpsd environment (with a printenv script) shows the following:
DOCUMENT_ROOT="/usr/local/apache/htdocs"
GATEWAY_INTEREFACE="CGI/1.1"
HTTPS="on"
snip
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/sparc-sun-solaris2.8
snip

Regards,

Shivkumar



Shivkumar said the following:

> hi,
> i thought about that:
> i created a small perl script with the following lines:
>
> my $file="invoice.1.3PwuBgQs.tex";
> system("pslatex $file > /dev/null 2>&1") == 0
> or die "pslatex $file faile: $!";
>
> as the freeside user inside the cache dir.
> and when i ran this program as the freeside user thus:
> $perl test.pl
> i get the .dvi file as the output in the same directory.
> that probably rules out the writability angle; and yes my httpsd is 
> running as user freeside.
>
> Regards,
>
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> Kristian Hoffmann said the following:
>
>> My guess would be that
>> /usr/local/etc/freeside/cache.DBI:Pg:dbname=freeside/ isn't writable by
>> the freeside user.  That would explain the lack of logfile.
>>
>> -Kristian
>>
>> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Shivkumar wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> hi,
>>> ive installed  Freeside v1.5.0pre6 CVS dated 21 April 05 on a SunOS 5.8
>>> sparc SUNW,Ultra-60.
>>> ive also installed the teTeX package from sunfreeware.com
>>> I am able to run pslatex from the command line as root and also as the
>>> 'freeside' user -> the output is a dvi file as it is supposed to be.
>>> however when i try view the open invoices, i get the following error:
>>> failed: pslatex
>>> /usr/local/etc/freeside/cache.DBI:Pg:dbname=freeside/invoice.1.hrLnGPkJ.tex 
>>>
>>> failed; see
>>> /usr/local/etc/freeside/cache.DBI:Pg:dbname=freeside/invoice.1.hrLnGPkJ.log 
>>>
>>> for details?
>>> funny thing is: there is no log file in the cache folder; only the .tex
>>> files
>>>
>>> now when i click on the 'view typeset invoice' link, i get the 
>>> following
>>> error:
>>> pslatex
>>> /usr/local/etc/freeside/cache.DBI:Pg:dbname=freeside/invoice.1.ztE3Ncmy.tex 
>>>
>>> failed: No such file or directory at
>>> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/FS/cust_bill.pm line 1448.
>>>
>>>
>>> The httpsd_error log also shows this:
>>> old-style invoice template invoice_latex; patch with 
>>> conf/invoice_latex.diff
>>> sh: pslatex: not found
>>>
>>> i found that there is indeed a .diff file in the conf folder but when i
>>> did a patch < invoice_latex.diff all  the hunks were rejected.
>>>
>>> so what am i doing wrong?
>>> also , thanks to ivan for giving a fresh lease of life to the pre-paid
>>> cards. Ive yet to test it though
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Shivkumar
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>
>>  
>>
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