On Wednesday 28 January 2009 14:32:12 Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 January 2009 12:45:16 Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > > > On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > Can someone please remind me of the current approved way of starting > > > > gpg-agent at root? Thanks > > > > > > "as root" or "at boot"? > > > > Sorry - stupid typo. Yes, at boot - or login, to be more precise. I > > think I used to start it with an eval statement in ~/.bash_profile, but > > on my backup file I see that it's commented out, so I presume I was told > > that there is a better way. > > I think you'd generally want to start it via your desktop environment > (gnome, kde or such). I'm not sure if there is a suggested way for a > "clean" CentOS but with the gnupg2 package from epel you get > a /etc/kde/env/gpg-agent-startup.sh file. > > I'm a kde person so I'd probably use .kde/env/... if my dist didn't handle > it. > > I've also seen solutions on other dists using > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent > > So, sorry, no good clean answer :-( > OK. Thanks for answering. I used to use ~/.kde/env, but somewhere around Fedora 6 I was told not to do that - I don't recall why. I'll experiment. It's no big deal. I was without a mail server for 24 hours as repeated power cuts depleted my ups and I saw my first really trashed system for 7 years. Everything else is working now and I can live without agent for a day or two until I find the best answer. Anne
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