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 $(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 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.