On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 02:21:23PM -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > 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
But what command did you try to run? You didn't say. > 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. If you are trying to run a script located in the current directory (which is not and should not be in your PATH by default), you have to specify the path to the program. Which is ./ for current directory. ./myscript I have no idea why you have an executable file beginning with a dot. Files that begin with a dot are traditionally configuration files used by some other program. I believe the config file for fetchmail is actually ~/.fetchmailrc and not ~/.fetchmail but it's been years since I last looked at fetchmail.
