gpg: fatal: can't create directory `~/.gnupg': A file or directory in the path name does not exist

[Shamim Shamimuddin]

By the way gpg veriosn is 1.4.9
> _____________________________________________ 
> From: 	Shamim Shamimuddin  
> Sent:	Friday, September 19, 2008 12:01 PM
> To:	'gnupg-users at gnupg.org'
> Subject:	gpg: fatal: can't create directory `~/.gnupg': A file or
> directory in the path name does not exist
> 
> 
> Gpg Gurus,
> 
> We are currently experiencing some problems when importing a public
> key. 
> 
> We are running gpg import as root on an AIX-5.3 Technology Level 8
> Unix server. Any inputs would really be appreciated.
> 
> Are there any environment variables that gpg import need for it to
> work?
> 
> Here is the error we get during the import process.
> 
> # gpg --import /var/temp/keysname
> gpg: using character set `iso-8859-1'
> gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory!
> gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information
> gpg: fatal: can't create directory `~/.gnupg': A file or directory in
> the path name does not exist.
> secmem usage: 0/0 bytes in 0/0 blocks of pool 0/32768
> 
> After executing the command we get a return code of 2.
> 
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> Regards,
> Shamim
> 
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