How to silence gpg-agent?

Dashamir Hoxha dashohoxha at gmail.com
Wed Mar 16 08:11:32 CET 2016


On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 7:30 AM, Dashamir Hoxha <dashohoxha at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 4:58 AM, NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe at fsij.org> wrote:
>
>> On 03/16/2016 06:06 AM, Dashamir Hoxha wrote:
>> > I have a problem that time after time I get output like this, which is
>> > somewhat unrelated to the operation performed and a bit confusing:
>> >
>> > ----------
>> > gpg: checking the trustdb
>> > gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, PGP trust model
>> > gpg: depth: 0  valid:   1  signed:   3  trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u
>> > gpg: depth: 1  valid:   3  signed:   0  trust: 2-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 1f, 0u
>> > gpg: next trustdb check due at 2017-01-05
>> > ----------
>> >
>> > I believe that it comes from gpg-agent. I have tried to silence it,
>> using
>> > the option '--quiet', but it seems not to work. Any idea what else I can
>> > try?
>>
>> It is not gpg-agent which outputs this message, but gpg frontend
>> itself, as it says "gpg:".  GnuPG checks trustdb periodically.
>>
>> You can stop it by --no-auto-check-trustdb option.
>>
>
Actually, there is no problem if GnuPG checks trustdb periodically, I just
don't want it to spill the output on stdin. Maybe it can do it silently, or
maybe it can record the output on a log file. What options can I use for
this?


>
> Maybe you are right, I will try this option.
> The problem is that this happens time after time, so I cannot be sure
> immediately that it solved the problem. I have to wait and see what
> happens.
>
> Thanks,
> Dashamir
>
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