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 ~/.gnupg/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.
- --verbose
- Enable extra informational output.
- --version
- Print version of the program and exit.
- --help
- Display a brief help page and exit.
EXAMPLES¶
$ watchgnupg --force /home/foo/.gnupg/S.log
This waits for connections on the local socket ‘
/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 value for that option must be given with a special prefix
(e.g. in the conf file):
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:
You may use any port and not just 4711 as shown above; only IP addresses 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
should give you access to the complete manual including a menu structure and an
index.