It pulls all of your keys from the keyserver, which will update their expirations and get new signatures and revocations.
I do not believe it should _delete_ keys from your keyring. Just tell you if the owner has revoked them. >From the man page: > --refresh-keys > Request updates from a keyserver for keys that already exist on > the local keyring. This is useful for updating a key with the > latest signatures, user IDs, etc. Calling this with no arguments > will refresh the entire keyring. On 2020-07-08T11:54:53-0400 Jerry <[email protected]> wrote 1.9K bytes: > FreeBSD 11.4 / amd64 > gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.20 > libgcrypt 1.8.5 > > This is probably a stupid question, but precisely what is supposed > to happen after running "gpg2 --refresh-keys"? > > This is the log file created from running the above command: > > https://www.seibercom.net/logs/RefreshKeys.txt > > If I run the same command immediately after it completes its > first invocation, the same log file is created. I thought that > running 'refresh-keys" would remove deleted keys and update those that > had new expirations dates or other modifications. Obviously, I must be > in error. So, precisely what does the command accomplish? > > Thanks! > > -- > Jerry > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
