Re: fetchmail woes

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>]

On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 03:15:57PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After a heavy couple of hours reading man fetchmail I came up with this
> .fetchmailrc:
> 
> set postmaster "patrick"
> poll pop.dial.pipex.com with proto POP3
>        user "maxy36" there with password "ngookich" is patrick here options
> fetchall
> warnings 3600
> 
> But I get this message when I try to run it.
> 
> rhino:~# fetchmail
> File /root/.fetchmailrc must have no more than -rwx--x--- (0710)
> permissions.
> 
> Also, after chown 0710 I get
> 
> rhino:~# ls -al .fetchmailrc
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          164 Jul 12 15:51 .fetchmailrc
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

chmod, not chown

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