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 ~/.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  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.

GnuPG 2.1.11                                       2016-01-21                                      WATCHGNUPG(1)