.gnupg directory contents re-appear after deletion ; Ubuntu 9.10
I want to delete my .gnupg directory and everything in it. As soon as I delete the files in this directory, they come back. What could doing this and how do I make it stop?
This is a pretty clean and vanilla "fresh out of the box" 9.10 install. dave@gobot:~/.gnupg$ ls pubring.gpg secring.gpg trustdb.gpg dave@gobot:~/.gnupg$ rm * dave@gobot:~/.gnupg$ ls dave@gobot:~/.gnupg$ ls dave@gobot:~/.gnupg$ ls pubring.gpg secring.gpg trustdb.gpg dave@gobot:~/.gnupg$ Thanks to anyone who can shed light on what's going on here. |
If you want to remove the entire directory, use "rm .gnupg -rf" .
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I know how to remove a directory. The problem is that the directory keeps re-appearing after I remove it. What I have been trying to figure out ( so far unsuccessfully ) is: What is recreating these files and how do I disable it?"
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This is created by the gnupg package (http://www.gnupg.org/)
it is used by various packages like the update-manager, and if you really want to remove it, just uninstall gnupg with synaptic or running sudo apt-get uninstall gnupg in a shell. |
Solved
By trial and error I found out that turning off the "Seahorse Daemon" in the System/Preferences/StartupApplications menu makes this behavior go away.
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