On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 09:30:37AM +0200, Christian Kurz wrote: > maybe not very helpful. If I understood you correctly, then the package > smtpd provides a init script which reads some defaults from > /etc/default/snmp and then starts snmpd, snmpdtrapd, etc. So if a user > adds/changes the right entry in /etc/default/snmp the snmptrapd daemon > will never be started when the machine is rebooted.
Correct. > But what about the > missing '-f' that the user reported? Is there really some '-f' missing > in a test or is it only missing due to the cirumstance of removing the > configuration file /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf. I'm currently unsure about The missing '-f' is supposed to be part of an additional check to make sure there is a config file prseent before starting the daemon. The missing '-f' results in that check always evaluating true. On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 12:54:23PM +0200, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: > the existence of this file and not startd the daemon. Why not send a > package to propose updates fixing this? How do I do that. > In any case you might want to > check if this behavior applies too for the snmpd package. It doesn't. It was just a typo for snmptrapd that happened to be valid /bin/test syntax and slipped through my testing (and apparently everyone else's for a long time).. David -- David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
