How to start gpg-agent? | Documentation Skip to main content Search form Search 2021/22 students COVID-19 Computing Help Contact us (external) Contact us New to Informatics? Computing accounts Services Mail Printing Network Platforms Software Guides and HOWTOs Remote working Learning Technology Policies and guidelines Projects Student laptops Teaching Raising queries and escalation FAQ You are here Home How to start gpg-agent? Printer-friendly version Answer: By default the gpg-agent daemon won't start on DICE machines. This is because we use AFS for user home directories and that filesystem does not support the use of special files such as sockets and pipes. You can work around it by starting the agent with the --no-use-standard-socket option which will cause it to create the socket in a local temporary directory instead. For example:
gpg-agent --daemon --no-use-standard-socket
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