Hi folks, I am going CRAZY from this, any help MUCH appreciated!!! I have a perl script that creates a tex file.. Now after the tex file is completed I want to convert it it pdf via pdflatex.... So I call: 
system "/usr/bin/pdflatex -output-directory /tmp /tmp/perl.tex";
system "mv /tmp/perl.pdf /export/www/html/auth/download/";

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Now what happens is that the generated pdf is unreadable (.log file says : 
[1{/usr/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map
Error: /usr/bin/pdflatex (file /usr/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/u
+pdmap/pdf
tex.map): fflush() failed
 ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished!

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The funny part is that when I log in via ssh (and even change my user to apache by typing "su apache") then pdflatex works just fine... If I run those two command outside of perl 
$ /usr/bin/pdflatex -output-directory /tmp /tmp/perl.tex
$ mv /tmp/perl.pdf /export/www/html/auth/download/

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=> this works np. Why the heck is perl not able to call the system properly?! Any ideas? Anybody who created pdfs this wat and can help? PLLLLS :)

In reply to system call to pdflatex by kosta

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