[CentOS] Cannot execute /usr/bin/fetchmail

Tim Jackson lists at timj.co.uk
Sun Mar 25 11:05:47 UTC 2007


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 at 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



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