WATCHGNUPG
Section: GNU Privacy Guard (1)Updated: 2007-12-03
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NAME
watchgnupg - Read and print logs from a socketSYNOPSIS
watchgnupg [--force] [--verbose] socketnameDESCRIPTION
Most of the main utilities are able to write there log files to a Unix Domain socket if configured that way. watchgnupg is a simple listener for such a socket. It ameliorates the output with a time stamp and makes sure that long lines are not interspersed with log output from other utilities.
watchgnupg is commonly invoked as
-
watchgnupg --force ~/.gnupg/S.log
OPTIONS
watchgnupg understands these options:
- --force
-
Delete an already existing socket file.
- --verbose
-
Enable extra informational output.
- --version
-
print version of the program and exit
- --help
-
Display a brief help page and exit
SEE ALSO
gpg(1), gpgsm(1), gpg-agent(1), scdaemon(1)The full documentation for this tool is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If GnuPG and the info program are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info gnupg
should give you access to the complete manual including a menu structure and an index.
