Error getting Julian's key

[Dhawal Doshy]

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Chris W. Parker writes: 

> According to http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index I am
> supposed to run 'gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 1415B654'
> before installation. However I get the following output: 
> 
> gpg: failed to create temporary file
> `/root/.gnupg/.#lk0x8bc9a8.localhost.localdomain.25932': No such file or
> directory
> gpg: keyblock resource `/root/.gnupg/secring.gpg': general error
> gpg: failed to create temporary file
> `/root/.gnupg/.#lk0x8bccb8.localhost.localdomain.25932': No such file or
> directory
> gpg: keyblock resource `/root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg': general error
> gpg: no writable keyring found: eof
> gpg: error reading `[stream]': general error
> gpg: Total number processed: 0 
> 
> 'rpm -qa|grep -i gpg' returns: 
> 
> libgpg-error-1.0-1
> gpg-pubkey-443e1821-421f218f 
> 
> 
> What am I missing or doing wrong? 
> 
>  
> 
> Chris.

Do you have a directory called .gnupg in /root? try creating one and rinse 
repeat to see if it works. 

 - dhawal

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