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?