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

       which is a shorthand for

         watchgnupg --force $(gpgconf --list-dirs socketdir)/S.log

       To watch GnuPG running with a different home directory, use

         watchgnupg --homedir DIR

OPTIONS

       watchgnupg understands these options:

       --force
              Delete an already existing socket file.  This  option  is  implicitly  used  if  no
              socket name has been given on the command line.

       --homedir DIR
              If  no  socket  name  is given on the command line, pass DIR to gpgconf so that the
              socket for a GnuPG running with DIR has its home directory is used.  Note that  the
              environment variable GNUPGHOME is ignored by watchgnupg.

       --tcp n
              Instead  of reading from a local socket, listen for connects on TCP port n.  A Unix
              domain socket can optionally also be given as a second source.   This  option  does
              not use a default socket name.

       --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 --time-only

       This waits for connections on the local socket (e.g. ‘/var/run/user/1234/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 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

         info gnupg

       should give you access to the complete manual including a menu structure and an index.