I had gnuPg working from php fine, but recently it has developed an error, I was using this to encrypt: system("/usr/local/bin/gpg --encrypt -ao $crypted -r $recip $plainTxt"); gpg: fatal: /root/.gnupg: can't create directory: No such file or directory secmem usage: 0/0 bytes in 0/0 blocks of pool 0/16384 and is not generating any output Could anyone help me please Thanks, Jon Roberts.