On Sunday, May 15, 2011, Alice Marcot <alice.inside.mir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying use matplotlib on CentOS through a PHP script. If I run it on the
> command line it works fine and generates a PNG figure. If I run with another
> user,
>
> sudo -u apache python filename.py
>
> it gives error: Cannot obtain dvipng version.
>
> Any ideas? I search the net but no answers. It looks like a bug? In the
> script I am using TeX.
>
> rc('text', usetex=True)
>
> Texlive and dvipng are installed and paths are set correctly.
>
>
It is a security feature. The apache user is limited by selinux. I
don't know how to address this, but selinux is where you should look.
Ben Root
PS - Don't succum to the temptation to simply turn off selinux. There
are easy ways to create exception modules using sealert and other
tools. Selinux is a very important part of the security mechanisms
for Linux.
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