running as apache user does not work, why?

[David Carlisle]

It looks like the path for that account does not include
/usr/local/texlive/2019/bin/x86_64-linux (or at least that is not before
/usr/local/bin)

David


On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 19:47, mario chiari <ml at mariochiari.net> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I try to run the following from terminal:
>
> >  sudo -u apache  /usr/local/texlive/2019/bin/x86_64-linux/pdflatex
> myFile.tex
>
> I get the following error
>
> >>>
> LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `T2A/wncyr/m/n' undefined
> (Font)              using `T2A/cmr/m/n' instead on input line 3.
>
>
> kpathsea: Running mktextfm larm1000
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source
> abbreviation  for larm1000.
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update ?
> mkdir: cannot create directory ‘././usr/share/httpd/.texlive2018’:
> Permission
> denied
> mktextfm: mktexdir /usr/share/httpd/.texlive2018/texmf-
> var/fonts/tfm/unknown/unknown failed.
> kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
> ! Font T2A/cmr/m/n/10=larm1000 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file
> not fo
> und.
> <<<
>
> Is kpathsea trying to call /usr/share/texlive/.../ instead of
> /usr/local/texlive/2019/.../? Why?
> I do not understand why it tries to write into  ‘././usr/share/httpd/; also
> why .texlive2018  instead of .texlive2019?
>
>
> Everything works fine if I run it as root (I am on a Fedora 29 machine).
> Help is welcome
>
> thanks cheers
> mario
>
>
> ps this is an old issue of mine, with a new  glitch.
>
>
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