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diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index a876b6bb0..a03b11116 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2009-06-02 Werner Koch <[email protected]> + + * tools.texi (watchgnupg): Typo fix. Fixes bug#1065. + + * gpg-agent.texi (Agent Commands): Update description of --daemon. + 2009-05-20 Werner Koch <[email protected]> * gpg.texi (GPG Configuration Options): Explain new meaning of diff --git a/doc/gpg-agent.texi b/doc/gpg-agent.texi index 16dd52197..27946c025 100644 --- a/doc/gpg-agent.texi +++ b/doc/gpg-agent.texi @@ -157,15 +157,17 @@ default mode is to create a socket and listen for commands there. @item --daemon [@var{command line}] @opindex daemon -Run the program in the background. This option is required to prevent -it from being accidently running in the background. A common way to do -this is: -@example -@end example -$ eval $(gpg-agent --daemon) +Start the gpg-agent as a daemon; that is, detach it from the console +and run it in the background. Because @command{gpg-agent} prints out +important information required for further use, a common way of +invoking gpg-agent is: @code{eval $(gpg-agent --daemon)} to setup the +environment variables. The option @option{--write-env-file} is +another way commonly used to do this. Yet another way is creating +a new process as a child of gpg-agent: @code{gpg-agent --daemon +/bin/sh}. This way you get a new shell with the environment setup +properly; if you exit from this shell, gpg-agent terminates as well. @end table - @mansect options @node Agent Options @section Option Summary diff --git a/doc/tools.texi b/doc/tools.texi index 506529065..fa794fc2b 100644 --- a/doc/tools.texi +++ b/doc/tools.texi @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ GnuPG comes with a couple of smaller tools: @end ifset @mansect description -Most of the main utilities are able to write there log files to a +Most of the main utilities are able to write their log files to a Unix Domain socket if configured that way. @command{watchgnupg} is a simple listener for such a socket. It ameliorates the output with a time stamp and makes sure that long lines are not interspersed with log |