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Re: chmod not working on Win98


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

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