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WATCHGNUPG(1)							 GNU Privacy Guard						     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 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 2.0.19 2014-06-26 WATCHGNUPG(1)

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SYMCRYPTRUN(1)							 GNU Privacy Guard						    SYMCRYPTRUN(1)

NAME
symcryptrun - Call a simple symmetric encryption tool SYNOPSIS
symcryptrun --class class --program program --keyfile keyfile [--decrypt|--encrypt] [inputfile] DESCRIPTION
Sometimes simple encryption tools are already in use for a long time and there might be a desire to integrate them into the GnuPG frame- work. The protocols and encryption methods might be non-standard or not even properly documented, so that a full-fledged encryption tool with an interface like gpg is not doable. symcryptrun provides a solution: It operates by calling the external encryption/decryption mod- ule and provides a passphrase for a key using the standard pinentry based mechanism through gpg-agent. Note, that symcryptrun is only available if GnuPG has been configured with '--enable-symcryptrun' at build time. For encryption, the plain text must be provided on STDIN or as the argument inputfile, and the ciphertext will be output to STDOUT. For decryption vice versa. CLASS describes the calling conventions of the external tool. Currently it must be given as 'confucius'. PROGRAM is the full filename of that external tool. For the class 'confucius' the option --keyfile is required; keyfile is the name of a file containing the secret key, which may be protected by a passphrase. For detailed calling conventions, see the source code. Note, that gpg-agent must be running before starting symcryptrun. The following additional options may be used: -v --verbose Output additional information while running. -q --quiet Try to be as quiet as possible. --homedir dir Set the name of the home directory to dir. If this option is not used, the home directory defaults to '~/.gnupg'. It is only recog- nized when given on the command line. It also overrides any home directory stated through the environment variable 'GNUPGHOME' or (on W32 systems) by means of the Registry entry HKCUSoftwareGNUGnuPG:HomeDir. --log-file file Append all logging output to file. Default is to write logging information to STDERR. The possible exit status codes of symcryptrun are: 0 Success. 1 Some error occured. 2 No valid passphrase was provided. 3 The operation was canceled by the user. SEE ALSO
gpg(1), gpgsm(1), gpg-agent(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 2.0.15 2010-07-05 SYMCRYPTRUN(1)
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