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Re: gpg-agent spamming syslog



	Hi.

On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 17:05:42 +0000
Bob Brewer <ipcop-devel@grantura.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.

You're welcome.
All those options (in gpg-agent(1)) do not apply to running instances
of gpg-agent if specified in a configuration file.

Reco


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