I cannot run gpg from a perl script

[John.Airey@rnib.org.uk]

I'm trying to run gpg from a perl script, and I get the following errors:

gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
gpg: fatal: ~/.gnupg: can't create directory: No such file or directory
secmem usage: 0/0 bytes in 0/0 blocks of pool 0/16384

This is the command line in my perl script:

/usr/bin/gpg -a -r $person --always-trust -o /path/to/output --batch -e
/path/to/input 2> /path/to/errors

Where $person is the address of the person I'm trying to send the encrypted
file to.

What else am I missing?

Thank you.
- 
John Airey
Internet systems support officer, ITCSD, Royal National Institute for the
Blind,
Bakewell Road, Peterborough PE2 6XU,
Tel.: +44 (0) 1733 375299 Fax: +44 (0) 1733 370848 John.Airey@rnib.org.uk 

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