gpg error

[tioat]

Russell Coker wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 12:10, tioat <tioat at adelphia.net> wrote:
> > I just did a clean install of fc3-t3 and when trying to gen a
> > new key gpg aborted with this error:
> >
> > gpg: can't create `~/.gnupg/random_seed': No such file or directory
> >
> > After manually creating the ~/.gnupg directory it worked fine.
> >
> > Does this have anything to do with selinux?  Cuz I haven't read
> > the book yet. ;)
> 
> If SE Linux prevents it then "dmesg" should show an AVC message related to it.
> 
> The SE Linux policy for gpg (which is only installed if you use the "strict" 
> policy - not on a default install) allows creating the directory.

No avc messages for gpg.  I removed that directory to double
check and 'gpg --gen-key' returned the same error.

But now I see why my message board isn't working.

avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=2699 exe=/usr/sbin/httpd name=mysql.sock 

Guess I better read that book.