On Tuesday 06 December 2016 17:26:55 Jude DaShiell wrote: > It may be an ownership problem if you have the fetchmail package > installed on your system. The .fetchmailrc file may be in your > account but that doesn't necessarily mean you explicitly own it. > > On Tue, 6 Dec 2016, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 16:21:23 > > From: Bob Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: "command not found" > > Resent-Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 21:21:52 +0000 (UTC) > > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > > I've run across this a number of times in the past, but it's usually > > a permissions problem, easily fixed. Not this time. > > > > holtzm@localhost:~$ ls -l .fetchmail > > -rwx------ 1 holtzm holtzm 365 Nov 26 14:05 .fetchmail
Who setup those perms? Of course it will fail. Heres mine. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 754964 Feb 11 2015 /usr/local/bin/fetchmail fetchmail starts as root, and immediately does a set uid to the user that launched it, and its been working that way here for for nearly 2 decades. Its running as a daemon, as the user me, pulling new mail every 3 minutes since the last reboot 11 days back. > > > > Sure looks like it aught to work. It's probably something simple > > that I'm missing and when someone points it ought I will ram my head > > into a wall in self-disgust. Not recommended. But a repeated reading of the man page might be illuminating. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
