Restarting gpg-agent

Doug Barton dougb at dougbarton.us
Sun Mar 14 22:40:03 CET 2010


On 03/14/10 12:24, James Moe wrote:
> Hello,
>   opensuse v11.2, linux 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop x86_64, gpg v2.0.12.
>   The docs at <http://www.gnupg.org/> cover starting gpg-agent pretty
> well. What is missing is how to re-start it.
>   If gpg-agent is terminated for some reason, or the system is booted,
> the file <.gpg-agent.info> is left behind. Because the file exists, when
> .bashrc is run it detects the file and does not start gpg-agent.
>   Is there some way to:
> 1. Detect if gpg-agent is running. If not, erase <.gpg-agent.info>, or
> 2. Erase <.gpg-agent.info> at boot time.

http://dougbarton.us/PGP/index.html, click on the link for the gpg-agent
script.


hth,

Doug

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