WATCHGNUPG(1) GNU Privacy Guard 2.2 WATCHGNUPG(1)
NAME
watchgnupg - Read and print logs from a socket
SYNOPSIS
watchgnupg [--force] [--verbose] socketname
DESCRIPTION
Most of the main utilities are able to write their 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. This tool is not available for Windows.
watchgnupg is commonly invoked as
watchgnupg --force $(gpgconf --list-dirs socketdir)/S.log
OPTIONS
watchgnupg understands these options:
--force
Delete an already existing socket file.
--tcp n
Instead of reading from a local socket, listen for connects on
TCP port n.
--time-only
Do not print the date part of the timestamp.
--verbose
Enable extra informational output.
--version
Print version of the program and exit.
--help Display a brief help page and exit.
EXAMPLES
$ watchgnupg --force --time-only $(gpgconf --list-dirs socketdir)/S.log
This waits for connections on the local socket (e.g.
‘/home/foo/.gnupg/S.log’) and shows all log entries. To make this work
the option log-file needs to be used with all modules which logs are to
be shown. The suggested entry for the configuration files is:
log-file socket://
If the default socket as given above and returned by "echo $(gpgconf
--list-dirs socketdir)/S.log" is not desired an arbitrary socket name
can be specified, for example ‘socket:///home/foo/bar/mysocket’. For
debugging purposes it is also possible to do remote logging. Take care
if you use this feature because the information is send in the clear
over the network. Use this syntax in the conf files:
log-file tcp://192.168.1.1:4711
You may use any port and not just 4711 as shown above; only IP ad-
dresses are supported (v4 and v6) and no host names. You need to start
watchgnupg with the tcp option. Note that under Windows the registry
entry HKCU\Software\GNU\GnuPG:DefaultLogFile can be used to change the
default log output from stderr to whatever is given by that entry.
However the only useful entry is a TCP name for remote debugging.
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 struc-
ture and an index.
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