Re: smime_keys init doesn't create directories

[Andrew Diederich <andrewdied@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 08:11:30PM -0600, Andrew Diederich wrote:

Has anyone run into a scenario where "smime_keys init" doesn't create
any directories or files?  Alternately, is there any documentation about
what files, formats, and directory structure smime_keys is supposed to
make, so I can do it by hand?  I've read through the perl script,
but it's a bit light on internal documentation.

> I'm using the mutt 1.5.17 package on ubuntu 8.04.  I have a thawte email
> certificate I'm trying to use with mutt.  About the first thing in the 
> smime readme is to "smime_keys init", which should create the ~/.smime/
> set of directories and subdirectories I have in my .muttrc.
> 
> Unfortunately, no directories or the .index files are created.  I
> threw some print statements in the smime_keys perl script, and it looks
> like it's getting all the correct variables.  I'm not a perlmonger, so
> I'm not sure how to change the script for force it to really create the
> files and directories it needs.  Also, since it's not working quite
> right, if I make the files by hand, I don't know why the script isn't
> working, so it may break further when I need it.
> 
> Has anyone else ran into where smime_keys init doesn't init, and fixed
> it?  Thanks for the help.

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Andrew Diederich