using read-only fs for ~/.gnupg ?

Aaron D. Turner aturner@onesecure.com
Fri Oct 19 19:24:02 2001


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I was wondering if anyone could give me any suggestions for setting up my
~/.gnupg dir on a read-only fs?  I'm using the --no-random-seed-file
option, but I'm still getting attempts to create temp files in the
directory.  So far, I haven't been able to determine any negative effects
of this, but it is a little worrisome.

Here's an example:
gpg: failed to create temporary file `/home/aturner/.gnupg/.#lk0x80da800.lager.1544': Read-only file system
gpg: fatal: /home/aturner/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: can't create lock
secmem usage: 1632/1632 bytes in 3/3 blocks of pool 1632/16384

Thanks.

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