I cannot run gpg from a perl script

[Anthony E. Greene]

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On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 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
>
>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?

You need to specify the directory that contains the public keyring and the
options file. This directory should be writable by the user that's running
the script. See the --homedir option in the man page.

Tony
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