On 2016-12-06 14:21 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > 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 > > 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.
As Greg said, you probably just need to prefix the file name with its path when invoking it, in this case "~/.fetchmail" (or "./.fetchmail" when you already are in your home directory). If you don't want to have to do that, you could instead move .fetchmail to ~/bin/, /usr/local/bin/ or some other directory that is listed in the PATH environment variable (but probably not /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin or /usr/sbin as these are reserved for Debian). -- André Majorel <http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/> lists.debian.org, your one-stop shop for email addresses.
