Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
I have noticed that commands run via cron and execute via /bin/sh, so I tried to run the fetchmail command manually. This is what I get: [root@scalix ~]# /bin/sh /usr/bin/fetchmail /usr/bin/fetchmail: /usr/bin/fetchmail: cannot execute binary file What could be the problem here? Anyone else having problems with fetchmail?
Fetchmail is a binary (executable), not a shell script. So you can't run it like that.
You probably want a helper script that will execute fetchmail for you. In many cases you'll need to specify options on the command line anyway.
For example, write a script called "my-fetchmail-script": #!/bin/sh fetchmail --some-option --some-other-option and run "my-fetchmail-script" from cron. Tim _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
