On 05/19/2015 12:11 PM, Werner Koch wrote: > On Mon, 18 May 2015 14:38, jeandav...@verizon.net said: > >> 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. > > The man pages gives hints on how to avoid starting several > instances of gpg-agent. You should start it in your ~/.xsession script: > > gpg-agent --daemon --enable-ssh-support \ > --write-env-file "$@{HOME@}/.gpg-agent-info"
I tried this and it would not work. No such file or directory. I removed the @ signs and then that part worked. > > and for each login shell you run this: > > if [ -f "${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info" ]; then > . "${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info" > export GPG_AGENT_INFO > export SSH_AUTH_SOCK > fi I put that into .bashrc and it seems to work. Thank you. > > However it is easier to put "use-standard-socket" into > ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf and let gpg start gpg-agent as needed. This is > the same procedure as used by 2.1 and which has always used with 2.0 on > Windows (where use-standard-socket is the default). > > > Salam-Shalom, > > Werner > -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://linuxcounter.net ^^-^^ 22:35:01 up 19 days, 6:26, 2 users, load average: 4.61, 4.47, 4.34 _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users