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

[Edgar Soldin]

who would have guessed that. Thanks for sharing ..

regards ede
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> 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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