On 05/17/2015 09:02 PM, MFPA wrote: > > > I have read several times that multiple instances of gpg-agent is > not good. But I regularly see six or seven listings of > "gpg-agent.exe" in Task Manager or Process Explorer. If I don't > re-boot in the meantime (or kill the gpg-agent.exe processes with > Task Manager) they can hang around for at least a day after last > use. Is this likely to cause any problems? > > I am currently running GnuPG version 2.1.4 under Windows XP. GnuPG > is used by my email client, by a GUI key manager, occasional > commandline use, and by Mike Ingle's Confidant Mail. >
I run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and I get lots of them too. I just kill them once in a while, but surely that is not ideal. I tried the following script in my .bash_profile that I thought would work, but it does not. SOCKET=S.gpg-agent PIDOF=`pidof gpg-agent` declare -x PIDOF #RETVAL=$? kill -s SIGHUP $PIDOF 2>/dev/null rm $HOME/.gnupg/$SOCKET rm -fr /tmp/gpg-* eval $(gpg-agent --daemon) GPG_SOCKET_FILE=`find /tmp/gpg-* -name $SOCKET` 2>/dev/null ln -s $GPG_SOCKET_FILE $HOME/.gnupg #echo .bash_profile ran `/bin/date +%Y%b%d%R ` $GPG_SOCKET_FILE >> /home/jeandavid8/XprofileLog.txt -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://linuxcounter.net ^^-^^ 08:15:01 up 16 days, 16:06, 2 users, load average: 5.37, 5.13, 4. 87 _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
