crontab : exec, permission denied

[Lowell Gilbert]

ico <ico at 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