I'm trying to get gpg-agent running on my FC3 laptop so that I don't have to type in my passphrase each time I send out an e-mail. Unfortunately, when I try to start gpg-agent with the command:
$ gpg-agent I get the following error message: gpg-agent: can't connect to '/home/richard/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent': No such file or directory gpg-agent: no gpg-agent running in this session When I execute $ ps aux | grep gpg I see: richard 7975 0.0 0.1 5632 860 ? Ss Dec15 0:00 gpg-agent --daemon which makes me think that a gpg-agent actually is running. When, for kicks and giggles, I try to execute: $ gpg-agent --daemon I get this error message: can't connect to '/home/richard/.gnupg/log-socket': No such file or directory GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/gpg-4p6U8v/S.gpg-agent:10175:1 export GPG_AGENT_INFO; ...even though there is a file in /home/richard/.gnupg called log-socket. However, that file appears to be empty. Also, when I again execute $ ps aux | grep gpg after invoking the gpg-agent daemon, I see another instance is running. I don't know for sure, but my guess is that when I invoke the daemon, it creates a temporary file in the /tmp directory containing information about the session. It then puts that information into the log-socket file in the .gnupg subdirectory. Then when I attempt to invoke gpg-agent, it reads that information from the log-socket file. The reason it's looking for the S.gpg-agent file in the .gnupg directory instead of the /tmp/whatever directory is because the log-socket file was not properly created, so the proper path was not found. Am I right about this? How can I fix this? I've messed with permission settings on log-socket, on the .gnupg subdirectory (not much, since I want to keep it secure), and on the /tmp subdirectory, but that doesn't seem to help. And a search of Google brings up very little that is relevant or is written in German (which I don't read, unfortunately). Anyone have any ideas? -- Richard S. Crawford http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K Yahoo: rscrawford "Whatever does not kill me makes me stranger." --Llewellyn
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