Am 06.02.2017 um 17:32 schrieb Yuri D'Elia: > On Sat, Feb 04 2017, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> Can you give me the exact invocation? If the agent is being >> queried/auto-launched when it doesn't need to be, that'd be something >> worth asking GnuPG upstream to take a look at. > > Nothing fancy. The command line is: > > gpg --batch -qe -r keyid "$@" > >>> There's no secret key available for the recipient, but the agent is >>> somehow started, and actually gets stale. >> >> what does "stale" mean? > > simply a running agent that became older than the current release of > gpg. from cron itself I also get: > > gpg: WARNING: server 'gpg-agent' is older than us (2.1.17 < 2.1.18) > >>> Now cron will actually create an user slice for root, meaning that >>> there's some extra interplay with cron that I'm trying to exclude. >> >> what implementation of cron are you using? Are you using "systemd-cron" >> or the canonical "cron" package? > > This is from regular "cron". > But I could test the behavior on another system where I'm using > systemd-cron as well. > >> Why do you have lingering enabled if you don't want users running >> services? > > I do absolutely want users being able to run services. > >> For auto-launched gpg-agent processes (not systemd user services), i >> don't think lingering is the relevant configuration. The relevant > > In the specific cron case, I do see the listening sockets being created > (due to pam-systemd integration I guess) and removed at each job. > >> I/O contention? Or is it a single process that sleeps in the >> background, paged out until someone queries it? > > These are all single processes just waiting. > So for gpg purposes, the agent is working as intended. > However, I'm perplexed as of why I have so many running.
I guess all of this could be solved if gnupg-agent was using exit-on-idle (with some sensible default for the timeout). Or is there a reason why you want/need to keep gnupg-agent running all time? -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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