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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 lis-
       tener 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):

	 log-file socket:///home/foo/.gnupg/S.log

       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 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 HKCUSoftwareGNUGnuPG: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 structure and an index.

GnuPG 2.0.22							    2014-06-10							     WATCHGNUPG(1)