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

[Steve Madsen]

After much trial and error, I have finally solved this problem.

It turns out that FreeBSD's global /etc/crontab sets HOME=/var/log.   
It doesn't point to the true home directory of the user for a  
particular job.  GPG obediently used this $HOME and created an empty  
keyring in /var/log/.gnupg, which of course did not contain the public  
key I told Duplicity to use.  Thus the error, and why I could not  
duplicate the error when I ran it by hand or through root's crontab.

Thanks for everyone's suggestions.  Even though they didn't solve the  
problem, they gave me just enough confidence that my scripts were fine  
and something else was weird in my environment.

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Steve Madsen <address@hidden>
Light Year Software, LLC  http://lightyearsoftware.com