Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <008101c2b00a$11998330$3159893e@pomello> From: "Max Bowsher" To: , References: <174DFA06CDE8D411A1FB00B0D079EA47FF31C4@njex01.taratec.com> Subject: Re: gpg on cygwin error Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:47:39 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 CSegers@Taratec.com wrote: > Hello, > > I have installed the cygwin gpg package, and have tried to import the > KEYS from Apache as follows: > > $ gpg --import KEYS > gpg: fatal: //.gnupg: cant't create dircetory: No such file or > directory secmem usage: 0/0 bytes in 0/0 blocks of pool 0/16384 > > This from the dir with Apache download files, including KEYS file. > Also tried: > > $ gpg --import /usr/downloads/KEYS > > with the same results. Is this a cygwin problem maybe? Should I try to > conpile gpg instead of using the cygwin package? Or, maybe try and solve the direct problem shown in the error message? I.e., why your home dir is / ? Perhaps you should rebuild your /etc/passwd and /etc/group. mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd mkgroup -l > /etc/group assuming you aren't on a Windows Domain. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/