On Tue, 2019-02-26 at 21:01 +0000, Tixy wrote: > On Tue, 2019-02-26 at 15:21 -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > But more to the point, It's not an easy program to debug.... > > > > Following man page, I created ~/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf and populated > > it > > with: > > verbose > > debug-level expert > > keyserver na.pool.sks-keyservers.net > > disable-ipv6 > > disable-ldap > > log-file ~/dirmngr.log > > allow-ocsp > > > > and then I fired up Evolution and opened emails with gpg sigs, but > > still no data in the file ~/dirmngr.log. :-( > > I've no idea what dirmngr is, but have you tried specifying a proper > path for 'log-file' rather than using a tilde (~)? Perhaps whatever > parses dirmngr.conf doesn't treat a tilde as special like shells do.
dirmngr (Directory Manager?) is an agent produced by the GnuPGP folks who also have something called gpg-agent. Why one is called an agent and the other a mngr (manager) is unknown to me. The log file eventually started dumping some stuff. Here it is for those interested: http://paste.debian.net/plainh/16c494c3 -Jim P.
