I cannot run gpg from a perl script

[Ingo Klöcker]

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On Thursday 29 November 2001 12:44, John.Airey@rnib.org.uk wrote:
> 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

Obiviously GnuPG can't create the directory ~/.gnupg for some reason. 
Possible reasons are:
- - You don't have write permission in ~.
- - There is a file which is called ~/.gnupg and therefore the directory 
can't be created.

BTW, is this huge disclaimer (20+ lines) really necessary?

Regards,
Ingo
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