On Friday, 10.03.2006 at 10:34 +0000, Jon Dowland wrote: > At 1141903950, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:03:51 +0000 Dave Ewart > > <davee@sungate.co.uk> wrote: > > > where N is the number of seconds to cache for. I don't remember > > > where this was documented! > > > > perfect, thanks, and afaict, its not documented, or at least not > > very well. > > This is very timely -- I was just looking at gpg-agent myself, > yesterday. Indeed it is very poorly documented: if you look at the > BTS, there are plenty of reports to that effect filed on the package. > There's a manpage attached to at least one of those bugs. > > I think this is a great place for someone who wanted to do some work > on Debian to start: a great candidate package to document, especially > given the rather esoteric way you invoke it (the gpg.conf setting > first, then eval `gpg-agent --daemon` or whatever... you wouldn't > guess that ;) ) I wrote a short HOWTO about this on my blog a few months ago: http://www.sungate.co.uk/?p=218 if anyone's interested :-) The 'eval ...' part shouldn't be necessary, given the existence of /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent which will start the agent automatically for each X session. Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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