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chmod not working on Win98
- From: Greg Matheson <lang at ms dot chinmin dot edu dot tw>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 22:18:29 +0800
- Subject: chmod not working on Win98
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.
However when I tried chmodding it to 600, it stays at 644
greg at 7106 ~
$ ls -al .fetchmailrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg unknown 864 Feb 17 06:54 .fetchmailrc
greg at 7106 ~
$ umask 000
greg at 7106 ~
$ chmod 600 .fetchmailrc
greg at 7106 ~
$ ls -al .fetchmailrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg unknown 864 Feb 17 06:54 .fetchmailrc
greg at 7106 ~
$ umask 777
greg at 7106 ~
$ chmod 600 .fetchmailrc
greg at 7106 ~
$ ls -al .fetchmailrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 greg unknown 864 Feb 17 06:54 .fetchmailrc
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