On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 09:34:36AM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 10:18:29PM +0800, Greg Matheson wrote: > > When I installed fetchmail-6.2.2.1, fetchmail started refusing to > > use my .fetchmailrc. I think the requirement that permissions be > > 600 on it is new. > > No, I've been patching fetchmail to skip this permissions check due to > the following: > > http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC44 > > However, the corresponding fetchmail code changed between 6.2.1 and > 6.2.2. Hence, I needed to refresh my patch because the old one would > no longer apply cleanly. Maybe I got it wrong?
I just tried fetchmail after performing the following: $ chmod 777 ~/.fetchmailrc and fetchmail started successfully. So, AFAICT, my refreshed patch seems to be OK. Maybe a different (i.e., new) check is failing? Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/