Bug#574676: pdflatex font metrics generation problem when run as a web-server user

[Bal K Paudyal <bal@attaritech.net>]

Hi Hilmar,

Thanks, it worked. I set VARTEXFONTS to /tmp/.texmf-var and it worked.

However I think it may be better to leave that to $HOME/.texmf-var at

05TeXMF.cnf and change the value of that variable inside the script that www-data runs, would it be a better idea? 
One problem I am thinking is, once /tmp/.texmf-var is created by www-data, will that place be available for other users?

Thank you!





Hilmar Preuße wrote:
> On 20.03.10 Bal K Paudyal (bal@attaritech.net) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>   
> > I think this package has some issues. pdflatex run as a www-data
> > user fails to create pk fonts cache at the working directory (the
> > directory is writable by www-data) or /tmp. It fails with the
> > following error:
> >
> > *(see the transcript file for additional information)
> >  !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file ecsx1000): Font ecsx1000 at 600 not found
> >   ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
> >
> >     
> IIRC the default to write the fonts to is the home directory of the
> user ~/.texmf-var/.... If you don't like this you may change this in
> /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf, the parameter is called VARTEXFONTS.
> Don't forget to run update-texmf as root.
>
> Does this solve your problem?
>
> H.
>