gpg-agent startup/shutdown

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Fri Jan 30 20:23:57 UTC 2009


On Friday 30 January 2009 19:59:34 Rex Dieter wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Friday 30 January 2009 19:04:53 Rex Dieter wrote:
> >> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >>> Rex, some time ago you told me the best way to start gpg-agent under
> >>> Fedora. Unfortunately I can't find the message, and I have problems
> >>> with agent on the F10 netbook and the newly repaired CentOS 5.2 box. 
> >>> If you could tell me again I'll make sure that it is easily found -  a
> >>> gpg page has been started on userbase, so I could put it there.
> >>
> >> Here's what we use:
> >> https://fedorahosted.org/kde-settings/browser/trunk/etc/kde/env/gpg-agen
> >>t-s tartup.sh
> >> https://fedorahosted.org/kde-settings/browser/trunk/etc/kde/shutdown/gpg
> >>-ag ent-shutdown.sh
> >>
> >> gnupg2's packaging in epel currently includes these too, but I'm
> >> waffling on whether to continue that or not (we went away from that in
> >> fedora awhile ago, in favor of support in the kde-settings pkg).
> >
> > Thanks, Rex.  And these go in the user's .kde/env and .kde/shutdown
> > directories?  The 'eval' starter and 'shutdown' scripts I used long ago
> > in those directories don't seem to work with more modern distros.
>
> Stock kde (including RHEL) doesn't support /etc/kde/(env,shutdown), only
> /usr/(env,shutdown).
>
> But all kde's should honor ~/.kde/(env,shutdown)...  Though, some
> distros use ~/.kde4 instead, maybe that it's it?
>
> The code for groking these are all in /usr/bin/startkde
>
OK, thanks.  The important thing is to make it easy to find the info.  
Hopefully userbase will achieve this.

Anne
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