Date: 01 Jul 2003 10:25:35 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: ico <ico@beke.info> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crontab : exec, permission denied Message-ID: <44fzlq8gtc.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20030629082956.GA1077@beke.info> References: <20030629082956.GA1077@beke.info>
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ico <ico@beke.info> writes: > I added to /etc/crontab this line: > > */5 * * * * user1 /usr/local/bin/getmail \ > -r /usr/home/user1/.getmail/getmailrc > > > I wanted getmail to pick-up mail for user user1. Result is error: > exec: :permission denied > > $ls -l /usr/local/bin/getmail > r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 328 Jun 22 07:41 /usr/local/bin/getmail* > > I also tried to create user1's crontab ( su user1; crontab -e ) . Result is the > same. What's wrong? Does it work from the command line? The following works fine for me from my user crontab: 6 6 * * 1-7 /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -s
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