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6 watchgnupg - Read and print logs from a socket
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9 watchgnupg [--force] [--verbose] socketname
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13 Most of the main utilities are able to write their log files to a Unix
14 Domain socket if configured that way. watchgnupg is a simple listener
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23 watchgnupg --force $(gpgconf --list-dirs socketdir)/S.log
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107GnuPG 2.2.18 2019-11-23 WATCHGNUPG(1)