newbee entropy question

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On Tue, 4 May 2004, Mestack, Jim B. wrote:

> I set up a separate user to encrypt data files using a different public key
> and I get the following error:
>
> gpg: fatal: can't connect to `/home/newuser/.gnupg/entropy': No such file or
> directory
>
> I've tried copying the entropy file over to the new users .gnupg directory
> and get the following error:
>
> cp: /home/olduser/.gnupg/entropy: Operation not supported on socket
>
> Is there only one instance of this file allowed on the server?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
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i have no idea what you're trying to do.

why is there an file in ~/.gnupg/ called "entropy"??

what are you typing on the command line?
what are the uncommented lines in "~/.gnupg/gpg.conf" ???


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