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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 con‐
       figured 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  socket‐
       dir)/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 addresses  are  supported  (v4
       and  v6) and no host names.  You need to start watchgnupg with the tcp option.  Note that un‐
       der 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 use‐
       ful 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 2.2.27                                 2020-12-21                                WATCHGNUPG(1)