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 -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen