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Re: "command not found"



On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 07:33:06PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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 <holtzm@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.

Me, and they have been working flawlessly on another installation.

> 
> -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.

Either that or my learning to proof read would be equally illuminating.

-- 
Bob  Holtzman
"Bother", said Pooh, as he chambered another round...


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