Re: fetchmail woes

[Graham Lillico +44 1785 782329 <graham.lillico@gecm.com>]

The command your looking for is 'chmod 710 /root/.fetchmailrc' NOT chown 
which changes the owner of the file.

Hope that helps

Graham.

>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?