Re: gpg-agent spamming syslog
Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 15:40:27 +0000
> Bob Brewer <debian-user@grantura.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I'm running up-to-date Debian Sid and since gnupg-agent was upgraded from
>> gnupg-agent:amd64 (2.1.17-3), I have been seeing the following error in
>> syslog:
>>
>> gpg-agent[7545]: can't connect to the SCdaemon: IPC connect call failed
>>
>> this is repeated every 2 seconds.
>>
>> I have tried killing gpg-agent with gpgconf --kill gpg-agent but it
>> immediately restarts presumably called by systemd but I can't find any
>> config files associated with gpg-agent to see where scdaemon is being
>> called. scdaemon isn't installed.
>>
>> Any suggestions where to look for the cause of the syslog error and
>> prevent my SSD from being worn out?
>
> echo disable-scdaemon >> $HOME/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
>
> Also, gpg-agent(1).
>
>
Thanks Reco I had tried logging out but it seems I had to reboot to stop the
error messages. I had missed the reference to "Note, that enabling this
option at runtime does not kill an already forked scdaemon" in the man page.
It all looks OK now
Rob
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