Re: [CentOS] Cannot execute /usr/bin/fetchmail

On 3/25/07, Tim Jackson lists@timj.co.uk wrote:

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.

Ok. That works. Thanks Tim.

Funny why cron behaves like that, does that mean I would have to make a helper script to run any other command I would want (as opposed to calling them directly)?