[Solved] Re: [libreoffice-users] Apache user can't run libreoffice --headless

Hi :)
Brilliant!  Nicely solved :)  Also thanks for letting this list know how you solved it.  It's a bit 
over my head tbh but i'm sure there are plenty on the list that will understand it.  

Many thanks and regards from
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Bobby kneisel <bobby.kneisel@ktechsolutionsllc.com>
> To: 
> Cc: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 December 2012, 17:06
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Apache user can't run libreoffice --headless
>
> Thanks for your reply. I looked at all the results of ps -aux last night
> and didn't see any service that would affect it. I solved the issue earlier
> today. Long story short, libreoffice needs a directory to write a temp file
> to and it writes to whatever is in $HOME so I needed to put export
> HOME=/apache/writable/
> directory and that solved it.
>
> Bobby Kneisel
> Owner
> KTech Solutions
> bobby.kneisel@ktechsolutionsllc.com
> 614.398.0999
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>wrote:
>
> > Hi :)
> > Do you have LO's or AOO's "Quickstarter" running?  Can you see it when you
> > check what processes are running?  Sry, i don't know what to grep to look
> > for it but something like
> >
> > ps aux | grep ???
> >
> > with the question marks replaced by something useful, perhaps "soffice"?
> > Errr, i am assuming a Gnu&Linux system due to the L in Lamp, otherwise i
> > guess you would have said "Wamp" or something right?
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
> >
> >
> >    ------------------------------
> > *From:* Bobby kneisel <bobby.kneisel@ktechsolutionsllc.com>
> > *To:* users@global.libreoffice.org
> > *Sent:* Tuesday, 18 December 2012, 7:03
> > *Subject:* [libreoffice-users] Apache user can't run libreoffice
> > --headless
> >
> > I am stumped on something and hoping you all can help. I have need for a
> > LAMP server to print directly from a webpage without the dialog box. So I
> > installed CUPS and mapped the printers. I am printing .docx files so I was
> > using the libreoffice --headless command to print using a shell script.
> > Everything was working great until today. All of a sudden clicking the
> > button to kick off the script failed, and after much troubleshooting, I
> > have traced the issue back to the apache user having an issue running
> > libreoffice --headless
> >
> > I used it at the CLI and it returns to a new line with no error, but no job
> > gets submitted to CUPS. If I re-direct output to a file, all I get is a
> > blank file
> >
> > commands I am using are:
> > libreoffice --headless -pt PrinterQueue FileName
> > or
> > libreoffice --headless -pt PrinterQueue FileName > testfile
> >
> > I have double-checked the PATH variable as well to make sure that was ok
> > and it is.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
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