Re: exec/system on FreeBSD help?

so then I tried system( "/usr/local/bin/pdflatex /usr/local/www/html/project_x/temp/report_file" ); i think this is a write premission thing. yes, it's where I think it is.... "Miguel Cruz" <mnc@stoic.net> wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0204011347050.30277-100000@stoic.net... > On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Jeff D. Hamann wrote: > > I tried some small script like exec("ls -la") and that worked. I then > > tried system( "/usr/local/bin/pdflatex temp/report_file" ); to try and > > diagnose the problem, and got "Fatal Error occured, I can't write on > > file 'report_file.log', suggesting that there might still be some > > permissions problems. > > Are you sure temp/report_file is where you think it is? May be safer to > use an absolute path. > > miguel >