On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 01:27:52PM -0400, Zembower, Kevin wrote: > What's automatically regenerating the files in my ~/.gnupg/ directory, > using the Ubuntu 8.04 system: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date;rm .gnupg/*;sleep 10; ls -l .gnupg/*;date > Mon Jun 23 12:30:38 EDT 2008 > -rw------- 1 kevinz kevinz 0 2008-06-23 12:30 .gnupg/pubring.gpg > -rw------- 1 kevinz kevinz 0 2008-06-23 12:30 .gnupg/secring.gpg > -rw------- 1 kevinz kevinz 40 2008-06-23 12:30 .gnupg/trustdb.gpg > Mon Jun 23 12:30:48 EDT 2008 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > This really bit me recently, when, as a newbie to gpg, I copied my keys > from another system to a USB memory stick, then copied them to the > kevinz-laptop system to learn how to use encryption with Evolution, > added a new key for private use, uploaded it to keyservers, then tried > to move the files back to my USB stick. When I saw the files > regenerated, I thought I had made a mistake with my 'mv' command, so > without looking at the timestamps or sizes of the file, just repeated > the 'mv' command, with the result of wiping out the new key I generated.
If you run gpg, and those files don't exist, gpg will create them. I can't say what is running gpg so oten on your system, but something is doing it - possibly evolution. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
