Chris has a good point. You used the ""'s when using the su tim but they are not needed when you are using the crontab as a user.

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Regards,

Kevin Martin


On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:59 AM Chris Adams <linux@cmadams.net> wrote:
Once upon a time, Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> said:
> Okay, in unfamiliar territory here, so logged in as my user, I tried
> crontab -e and put
>
> @reboot "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900"
>
> into it, then rebooted to see what would happen.  It didn't do what I
> expected, and I got this error message back:
>
> /bin/sh: /usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900: No such file or directory
>
> Which seems odd, as "/usr/bin/fetchmail" does exist.

Quotes are not needed in crontab... it is literally trying to look for a
file named "/usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900".  Just make the line:

@reboot /usr/bin/fetchmail -d 900

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Chris Adams <linux@cmadams.net>
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