cron "BAD FILE MODE"

[Timothy Murphy]

I'm getting this message
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Feb  6 16:06:51 martha crond[6266]: (*system*) BAD FILE MODE
(/etc/cron.d/fetchmail.cron)
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in /var/log/cron when I add what seems 
a perfectly good 1-line file
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5,15,25,35,45,55 * * * * tim /usr/bin/fetchmail alfred
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as /etc/cron.d/fetchmail.cron and restart crond.
When I run the same file in my own name by "crontab fetchmail.cron"
it works perfectly.

I googled for "BAD FILE MODE" and read a number of postings
from people who had had the same problem,
but I didn't see any clear answer.

I'm running crontabs-1.10-7 under Fedora-3.

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