Can't Run GnuPG from CGI Script

[pd]

I am getting the following error when trying to execute GnuPG from a cgi 
script.

gpg: fatal: ~/.gnupg: can't create directory: No such file or directory 
secmem usage: 0/0 bytes in 0/0 blocks of pool 0/163

Here is the gpg command:

gpg --homedir /var/www/data/.gnupg  $armor --always-trust --yes -o- -r 
'987500C1' --no-tty --batch --encrypt /home/perluser/gpg/plain_text.txt

Shouldn't the "--homedir" option take care of this error?

It is being executed by user apache.

It works fine from the command line.  It also works fine when executing it 
by a different normal user from the command line.

Is anyone successfully using gpg in this way on a web server?


At 06:55 PM 9/7/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>pd, at 12:37 -0400 on Fri, 7 Sep 2001, wrote:
>
>    I have written the following two Unix shell scripts to be executed from
>    perl scripts.  It works fine from the command line but when I try to 
> get it
>    to execute from a web page it refuses.  gpg reports no error, it *acts*
>    like it is running, there is no system error returned, but it does 
> nothing.
>
>You want to add options such as --no-tty and --batch
>
>You might want to look into the Perl module GnuPG::Interface instead of
>using shell scripts; it could be much safer.
>
>--
>Frank Tobin             http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/
>
>
>
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I have now installed Crypt::GPG and am using it to interface with 
GnuPG.  It still acts the same way when trying to execute gpg by user 
"apache" from the cgi-bin directory.

Any help would be *much* appreciated.

Thanks,

Paul