trying to export the sender key

Manuel Samper manuel@samper.dyndns.org
Sun Apr 13 19:47:02 2003


Don Patou, on Sunday, Apr 13 2003 at 17:47, wrote:
> I've just created my keys from the gnupg tutorial on 
> http://technocage.com/~caskey/gnupg/gpg-cmt.html. The problem is that when I 
> try to export my sender key with this line:
>  "joe@debian:~/keys/recipient$ gpg --homedir  -a --export recipient"
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
gpg are seeing homedir=-a

> I get a:
>  "gpg: keyblock resource `-a/secring.gpg': file open error
> gpg: keyblock resource `-a/pubring.gpg': file open error
> gpg: WARNING: nothing exported"

Don't set --homedir (by default in $HOME/.gnupg, on unix-like systems),
or set it to where your gnupg files (keyrings, etc.) are.

	MS