7.1 Read logs from a socket

Most of the main utilities are able to write there 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.

watchgnupg is commonly invoked as

     watchgnupg --force ~/.gnupg/S.log

This starts it on the current terminal for listening on the socket ~/.gnupg/S.log.

watchgnupg understands these options:

--force

Delete an already existing socket file.

--verbose

Enable extra informational output.

--version

Print version of the program and exit.

--help

Display a brief help page and exit.