Re: [Duplicity-talk] gpg "no public key", but only when run from cron

[Jon]

Steve Madsen wrote:
> I'm having a bear of a time getting my automated backups to work 
> properly from the cron environment.  I am using the scp transport.  When 
> run interactively, it works fine.  When run from cron, I get this error:
>
> gpg: 2D2CF1CB: skipped: No public key
> gpg: [stdin]: encryption failed: No public key
>
> I think my keys are set up OK in GPG:
>
> cheechoo# gpg -k
> /root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
> ------------------------
> pub   1024D/B2DF0ACA 2007-08-22
> uid                  Steve Madsen (root) 
> <address@hidden>
> uid                  Light Year Software, LLC (rsync.net backups) 
> <address@hidden>
> sub   2048g/2D2CF1CB 2007-08-22
>
> I had previous problems with "Fatal Error: Neither remote nor local 
> manifest is readable" (fixed by adding --archive-dir) and PATH 
> differences in the cron environment, but those are all resolved and I'm 
> down to this GPG issue.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?

I had the same issue and while I am sure there is a better way, I solved 
it by beginning my scripts with

# Export the PASSPHRASE variable because cron can't read it
# for some reason
export PASSPHRASE=MYPASSPHRASE

Might work for you...

Jon