How to silence gpg-agent?

[Dashamir Hoxha]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Jochen Saalfeld <jochen at intevation.de>
wrote:

>
> Hi Dahsamir,
>
> I digged the code a bit and found, the piece of code. As you already
> assumed
> correctly, the trust-db is checked periodically, if
> the --no-auto-check-trustdb option is not set, and a log output is made,
> when
> the option --quiet is not set (./g10/trustdb.c:970), but the validate
> function is always called. So setting --quiet will just silence the
> otuput "gpg: checking the trustdb". If you dig a bit deeper in the validate
> function (./g10/trustdb.c:2057), you'll see that the logging output about
> the
> validation is always done and it doesn't care about any flag.
>
> You can redirect the log output to a file with the --logger-fd option. You
> still have the output from the trustdb check, but maybe its easier to parse
> it from a file, then from the stdin.
>

Yes, either redirecting stderr (2>/dev/null) or using --logger-fd, does
suppress the output.
Thanks Jochen.
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