Re: command not found [SOLVED]
On Thu 17 Dec 2015 at 12:59:47 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 07:18:31PM +0000, Brian wrote:
> > On Wed 16 Dec 2015 at 11:05:22 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:06:14AM -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> > > > Please post your .fetchmailrc, obfuscating any identifying
> > > > information in it.
> > > >
> > > > Scripts can yield up a "command not found" when the nfg executable
> > > > is not the script itself but, say, some utility called in the
> > > > script. (Think: "Do I need to make any egreps greps." Just an
> > > > _example_.)
> > > >
> > > > Also, run 'fetchmail --version' for debugging info.
> > >
> > > It was disabled in the /etc/default/fetchmail file.
> >
> > What do you mean by "it"? Do you mean you changed
> >
> > START_DAEMON=no
> >
> > to
> >
> > START_DAEMON=yes ?
> >
> > What would that have to do with running the command "fetchmail"? Either
> > fetchmail fetches mail from a POP3 server or it doesn't. Running it as a
> > daemon would appear to me to have little to do with it, especially as
> > your first post did not mention this was requirement.
> >
> > I have "START_DAEMON=no" and the fetchmail command does what it is
> > supposed to do.
> >
> > You need to examine what your requirements are and how you have gone
> > about implementing them.
>
> Ran a search on "command not found" and one of the hits talked about
> changing the /etc/default/fetchmail file from "START_DAEMON=no" to
> "START_DAEMON=yes". I tried it and fetchmail immediately started
> working. After reading your post I tried changing it back to "no" and,
> I'll be damned, it still works.
>
> My requirements are simple and evident: I want to d/l my email. My
> implementation is the same that has for many years, including yesterday
> (after the fetchmail command started working).
>
> I've been running linux in various distros for over 10 yrs and every
> once in a while something like this pops up to show me how little I
> really know. One thing about linux, sometimes it's a great little ego
> buster.
The guts of my ~/.fetchmailrc are
poll <POP3 server>
proto pop3
user <Could be bob or bob@example.com>
password <secret>
ssl <May or may not be needed. Depends on the server>
'fetchmail -c -v' for testing.
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